The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 1

It is a small piece of space rock, often no bigger than a grain of sand, that rushes into the air so fast that it heats up and burns, leaving a bright streak.

Who acts: star, small piece · What happens: be, rush, heat up, burn, leave · To what, where: small piece, air, bright streak

This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday 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 (star, small piece), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 piece	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 piece	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 piece	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 piece	amod
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 rock	case
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rock	compound
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piece	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bigger	punct
10	often	often	ADV	_	12 bigger	advmod
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 bigger	advmod
12	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 piece	amod
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 grain	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 grain	det
15	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bigger	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 sand	case
17	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grain	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rushes	punct
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 rushes	nsubj
20	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 piece	acl:relcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 air	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rushes	obl
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 fast	advmod
25	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 rushes	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 heats	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 heats	nsubj
28	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fast	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 heats	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 burns	cc
31	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 heats	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 leaving	punct
33	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 heats	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 streak	det
35	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 streak	amod
36	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 leaving	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 piece	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	star	a small piece	of space rock	tree rules
2	rush	present	a small piece		into the air result; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result
3	heat up	present	star			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	burn	present	star not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave	gerund	star not said here	a bright streak		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent streak=Theme

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:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:1.

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.

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