Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, sentence 5

A shooting star is not a star at all but a tiny grain of rock or dust, often smaller than a grain of sand, burning up as it rushes into the Earth's air.

Who acts: shooting star, star · What happens: not be, burn up, rush · To what, where: star, all, 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), 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	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 grain	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 grain	det
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grain	amod
13	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 star	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 rock	case
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grain	nmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 dust	cc
17	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rock	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 smaller	punct
19	often	often	ADV	_	20 smaller	advmod
20	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 grain	amod
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 grain	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 grain	det
23	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smaller	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 sand	case
25	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grain	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 burning	punct
27	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 smaller	advcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 burning	compound:prt
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 rushes	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rushes	nsubj
31	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 burning	advcl
32	into	into	ADP	_	36 air	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Earth	det
34	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 air	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Earth	case
36	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rushes	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 star	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	a shooting star	a star but a tiny grain of rock or dust	all		tree rules
2	burn up	gerund	a shooting star not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rush	present	star			into the Earth's air result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result

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:5.

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 ×2. 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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