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title: The Earth is about 12 thousand 700 kilometres wide. — The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth is about 12 thousand 700 kilometres wide. Who acts: Earth. A sentence of the lesson «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator, sentence 7

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The Earth is about 12 thousand 700 kilometres wide.

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**Who acts:** Earth · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.lesson:7
# text = The Earth is about 12 thousand 700 kilometres wide.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	700	700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	_	0	root	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 |  |  |  |  | thousand kilometres *obl:unmarked*; wide *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:007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.lesson:7`.

**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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