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title: For example, the brightest point in the evening sky after the Moon i… — Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, the brightest point in the evening sky after the Moon is often Venus, called the evening star, though it is a planet that shines by reflecting sunlight. Who acts: brightest point, Venus, point, planet. A sentence of the lesson «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky» of the 
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# Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky, sentence 5

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For example, the brightest point in the evening sky after the Moon is often Venus, called the evening star, though it is a planet that shines by reflecting sunlight.

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**Who acts:** brightest point, Venus, point, planet · **What happens:** be, call, shine, reflect · **To what, where:** Venus, evening star, planet, sunlight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (brightest point, Venus, point, planet), 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:5
# text = For example, the brightest point in the evening sky after the Moon is often Venus, called the evening star, though it is a planet that shines by reflecting sunlight.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	advcl	_	_
32	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the brightest point in the evening sky after the Moon | Venus |  |  |  | for example; often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle | Venus *not said here* | the evening star |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | point | a planet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | present | a planet |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **reflect** | gerund | a planet *not said here* | sunlight |  |  |  |  | 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:070-the-night-sky.lesson:5`.

**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): 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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