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title: On a dark, clear night far from city lights you can see a few thousa… — Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky · tree and pragmatics
description: On a dark, clear night far from city lights you can see a few thousand stars with your eyes alone; in a city, the glow of the lights hides most of them. Who acts: you, glow, lights. A sentence of the lesson «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky» of the world course of Mova's primary sc
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# Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky, sentence 0

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On a dark, clear night far from city lights you can see a few thousand stars with your eyes alone; in a city, the glow of the lights hides most of them.

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**Who acts:** you, glow, lights · **What happens:** see, hide, glow · **To what, where:** thousand stars, most, city

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky» 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 (you, glow, lights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:070-the-night-sky.lesson:0
# text = On a dark, clear night far from city lights you can see a few thousand stars with your eyes alone; in a city, the glow of the lights hides most of them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 070-the-night-sky.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
33	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **see** | can | you | thousand stars |  |  | night | with your eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hide** | present | the glow of the lights | most of lights |  | a city |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent most=Patient in city=Location |
| 3 | **glow** |  | the lights |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:070-the-night-sky.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2, 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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