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title: Stars are spread out very thinly, with huge empty spaces between them. — Thinking like an astronomer · tree and pragmatics
description: Stars are spread out very thinly, with huge empty spaces between them. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an astronomer» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thinking like an astronomer, sentence 15

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Stars are spread out very thinly, with huge empty spaces between them.

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**What happens:** spread out · **To what, where:** Stars

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an astronomer» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:010-reasoning-about-space.lesson:15
# text = Stars are spread out very thinly, with huge empty spaces between them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 010-reasoning-about-space.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	thinly	thinly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spaces	space	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread out** | present · passive |  | Stars |  |  |  | with huge empty spaces between spaces; thinly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with space=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:010-reasoning-about-space.lesson:15`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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