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title: The farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer its year: Mercury g… — The solar system and the planets · tree and pragmatics
description: The farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer its year: Mercury goes around in 88 days, but Neptune needs about 165 of our years. Who acts: planet, Mercury, Neptune. A sentence of the lesson «The solar system and the planets» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# The solar system and the planets, sentence 3

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The farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer its year: Mercury goes around in 88 days, but Neptune needs about 165 of our years.

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**Who acts:** planet, Mercury, Neptune · **What happens:** be, go around, need · **To what, where:** Sun, 165

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The solar system and the planets» 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 (planet, Mercury, Neptune), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:004-the-solar-system.lesson:3
# text = The farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer its year: Mercury goes around in 88 days, but Neptune needs about 165 of our years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 004-the-solar-system.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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	around	around	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	88	88	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	165	165	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | a planet |  |  | the Sun |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go around** | present | Mercury |  |  |  | day | around *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | Neptune | 165 of our years |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 165=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:004-the-solar-system.lesson:3`.

**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 ×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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