Distances and light years, sentence 9

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is the farthest human-made object, and it is due to reach about one light-day from Earth, about 26 billion km, around late 2026.

Who acts: Voyager, it · What happens: launch, make, be, reach · To what, where: 1977, farthest human made object, billion km, late 2026

This is a sentence of the lesson «Distances and light years» of the space 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 (Voyager, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Voyager	Voyager	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 launched	nsubj
2	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Voyager	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Voyager	punct
4	launched	launch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1977	case
6	1977	1977	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 launched	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 object	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 object	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 object	det
10	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 object	amod
11	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 object	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 human	punct
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 object	amod
14	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 launched	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 due	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 due	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 due	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 due	cop
19	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	4 launched	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 reach	mark
21	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 due	csubj
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 one	advmod
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 day	nummod
24	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 day	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 light	punct
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reach	obl
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 Earth	case
28	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 day	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 km	punct
30	about	about	ADV	_	32 billion	advmod
31	26	26	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 billion	compound
32	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 km	nummod
33	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 reach	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 2026	punct
35	around	around	ADP	_	37 2026	case
36	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 2026	amod
37	2026	2026	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 reach	obl:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 launched	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	launch	past	Voyager		1977			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in 1977=Destination
2	make	participle						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	is a	present		the farthest human made object				tree rules
4	is	present	it				due property	tree rules
5	reach	to-infinitive		billion km	late 2026	day		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent around 2026=Path

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.

Licence: CC 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:space:022-distances-and-light-years.lesson:9.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

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