Stars: what they are, sentence 12
Sirius in Canis Major is the brightest star in the night sky, about 25 times brighter than the Sun in real power and about 8.6 light years away (a light year is the distance light travels in a year), which is near for a star.
Who acts: Sirius, light year, light, brightest star · What happens: be, travel · To what, where: brightest star, night sky, distance
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 (Sirius, light year, light, brightest 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 | Sirius | Sirius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 star | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Major | case |
| 3 | Canis | Canis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Major | compound |
| 4 | Major | Major | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sirius | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 star | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 star | det |
| 7 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 star | amod |
| 8 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sky | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sky | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sky | compound |
| 12 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 star | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brighter | punct |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 25 | advmod |
| 15 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 brighter | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 star | amod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 Sun | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sun | det |
| 20 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 brighter | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 power | case |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 power | amod |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brighter | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 away | cc |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 8.6 | advmod |
| 26 | 8.6 | 8.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 years | nummod |
| 27 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 years | compound |
| 28 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 away | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 brighter | conj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 travels | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 year | det |
| 32 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 year | compound |
| 33 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 distance | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 distance | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 distance | det |
| 36 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 star | parataxis |
| 37 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 travels | nsubj |
| 38 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 distance | acl:relcl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 year | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 year | det |
| 41 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 travels | obl |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 travels | punct |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 star | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 star | nsubj |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 star | cop |
| 46 | near | near | ADV | _ | 49 star | advmod |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 star | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 star | det |
| 49 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 star | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 star | 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 | Sirius in Canis Major | the brightest star and a star | the night sky | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a light year | the distance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | travel | present | light | the distance not said here | year | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | is | present | the brightest star and a star | for a star; near 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:12.
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 ×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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