Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, sentence 0

A shooting star is not a star at all: it is a grain of rock or dust, often smaller than a grain of sand, rushing into the Earth's air so fast that it glows and burns up.

Who acts: shooting star, star, grain · What happens: not be, be, rush, glow, burn up · To what, where: star, all, grain, air

This is a sentence of the lesson «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» 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 (shooting star, star, grain), 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 star	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 star	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 star	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 star	det
7	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 star	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 grain	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grain	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grain	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 grain	det
14	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 star	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 rock	case
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grain	nmod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 dust	cc
18	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rock	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 smaller	punct
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 smaller	advmod
21	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 grain	amod
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 grain	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 grain	det
24	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 smaller	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 sand	case
26	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grain	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rushing	punct
28	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 grain	acl
29	into	into	ADP	_	33 air	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Earth	det
31	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 air	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Earth	case
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rushing	obl
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 fast	advmod
35	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 rushing	advmod
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 glows	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 glows	nsubj
38	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 fast	ccomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 burns	cc
40	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 glows	conj
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 burns	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 star	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	a shooting star	a star	all		tree rules
2	is a	present	star	a grain		of rock or dust	tree rules
3	rush	gerund	a grain not said here			into the Earth's air result; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result
4	glow	present	star				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	burn up	present	star not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:space:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.lesson:0.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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