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title: The Earth is round: we know from photos from space, ships disappeari… — The YouTuber who is right about everything · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth is round: we know from photos from space, ships disappearing hull-first over the horizon, and people sailing and flying all the way round it. Who acts: Earth, we, ships, people. A sentence of the lesson «The YouTuber who is right about everything» of the world course of Mova's primary scho
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# The YouTuber who is right about everything, sentence 20

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The Earth is round: we know from photos from space, ships disappearing hull-first over the horizon, and people sailing and flying all the way round it.

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**Who acts:** Earth, we, ships, people · **What happens:** be, know, disappear, sail, fly · **To what, where:** photos, hull, horizon, way, Earth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The YouTuber who is right about everything» 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: who acts (Earth, we, ships, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.lesson:20
# text = The Earth is round: we know from photos from space, ships disappearing hull-first over the horizon, and people sailing and flying all the way round it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
14	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
15	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	round	round	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Earth |  |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | we |  |  | photos from space |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **disappear** | gerund | ships | hull |  | the horizon |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sail** | gerund | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fly** | gerund | people *not said here* | all way |  | Earth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory |

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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:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.lesson:20`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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