The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 10
A shooting star is a small piece of space rock burning up high in the air, not a star.
Who acts: shooting star, small piece · What happens: be, burn up · To what, where: small piece, air
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 (shooting 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | compound |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 piece | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 piece | amod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rock | case |
| 9 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rock | compound |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 11 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 piece | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 burning | compound:prt |
| 13 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 burning | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burning | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 star | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 star | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 star | det |
| 20 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a shooting star | a small piece | of space rock | tree rules | |||
| 2 | burn up | gerund | a small piece not said here | the air | high property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
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:10.
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): R6-punct-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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