The Moon, the planets and the stars, sentence 8
Shooting stars are tiny bits of space rock and dust burning up in our air; real stars are enormous and very far away.
Who acts: Shooting stars, space rock, real stars · What happens: be, burn up · To what, where: tiny bits, air
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the stars» of the myths 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 stars, space rock, real stars), 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 | Shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stars | compound |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bits | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bits | cop |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bits | amod |
| 5 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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 bits | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dust | cc |
| 10 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rock | conj |
| 11 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 rock | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 burning | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 air | nmod:poss |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burning | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 enormous | punct |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stars | amod |
| 18 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 enormous | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 enormous | cop |
| 20 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bits | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 away | cc |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 away | advmod |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 enormous | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bits | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Shooting stars | tiny bits | of space rock and dust | tree rules | |||
| 2 | burn up | gerund | space rock and dust not said here | our air | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | real stars | enormous property | tree rules |
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:myths:014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.lesson:8.
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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