Stars: what they are, sentence 0

The Sun is a star, quite an ordinary one: it looks so huge and bright only because it is about 270,000 times closer to us than the next nearest star.

Who acts: Sun, it · What happens: be, look · To what, where: star, ordinary one, us

This is a sentence of the lesson «Stars: what they are» 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 (Sun, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 star	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 star	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 star	det
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
7	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det:predet
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 star	appos
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 looks	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looks	nsubj
13	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 huge	advmod
15	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looks	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bright	cc
17	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 huge	conj
18	only	only	ADV	_	25 closer	advmod
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 closer	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 closer	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 closer	cop
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 270,000	advmod
23	270,000	270,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 times	nummod
24	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 closer	obl:unmarked
25	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 looks	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 closer	obl
28	than	than	ADP	_	32 star	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 star	det
30	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 star	amod
31	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 star	amod
32	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 closer	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 star	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Sun	a star				tree rules
2	look	present	it	quite ordinary one not said here			huge property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute
3	is	present	Sun		us	time	than the next nearest star; close 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:space:017-stars-what-they-are.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): no change. 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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