Stars: what they are, sentence 5
The Sun is a star, an ordinary one, and it looks so different from the others only because it is about 270,000 times closer than the next nearest star.
Who acts: Sun, it, star · What happens: be, look · To what, where: star
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, 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 | 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 | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 star | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looks | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looks | cc |
| 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 | 5 star | conj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 different | advmod |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looks | xcomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 others | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 others | det |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 different | obl |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 closer | advmod |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 closer | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 closer | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 closer | cop |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 270,000 | advmod |
| 24 | 270,000 | 270,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 times | nummod |
| 25 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 closer | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 looks | advcl |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 star | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 star | det |
| 29 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 star | amod |
| 30 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 star | amod |
| 31 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 closer | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | the Sun | a star | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | it | different property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | star | 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: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): 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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