Stars: what they are, sentence 13

Many stars are not alone but come in pairs or groups orbiting each other, and Sirius has a tiny white dwarf partner.

Who acts: Many stars, pairs, Sirius · What happens: not be, come, orbit, have · To what, where: pairs, each, tiny white dwarf partner

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 (Many stars, pairs, Sirius), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stars	amod
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 alone	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 alone	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 alone	advmod
5	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 come	cc
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 alone	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 pairs	case
9	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 groups	cc
11	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pairs	conj
12	orbiting	orbit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 pairs	acl
13	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	12 orbiting	obj
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 each	fixed
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 has	cc
17	Sirius	Sirius	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 alone	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 partner	det
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 partner	amod
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 partner	amod
22	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 partner	amod
23	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 alone	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Many stars			alone property	tree rules
2	come	present	Many stars not said here		pairs or groups		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=Location
3	orbit	gerund	pairs or groups not said here	each			tree rules
4	have	present	Sirius	a tiny white dwarf partner			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient

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:13.

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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