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title: If the Sun were a football, the Earth would be a peppercorn about 25… — The solar system and the planets · tree and pragmatics
description: If the Sun were a football, the Earth would be a peppercorn about 25 metres away, and Neptune would be about three quarters of a kilometre away. Who acts: Sun, Earth, Neptune. A sentence of the lesson «The solar system and the planets» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# The solar system and the planets, sentence 4

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If the Sun were a football, the Earth would be a peppercorn about 25 metres away, and Neptune would be about three quarters of a kilometre away.

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**Who acts:** Sun, Earth, Neptune · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** football, peppercorn, three quarters

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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 (Sun, Earth, 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:4
# text = If the Sun were a football, the Earth would be a peppercorn about 25 metres away, and Neptune would be about three quarters of a kilometre away.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	peppercorn	peppercorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Sun | a football |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | would | the Earth | a peppercorn |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | would | Neptune | three quarters |  |  |  | of a kilometre; away *property* | tree rules |

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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:4`.

**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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