Stars: what they are, sentence 9
Star colours show their temperature: red stars are coolest at about 3,000 °C, the Sun is yellow-white at about 5,500 °C, and blue-white stars can be over 20,000 °C.
Who acts: Star colours, red stars, Sun, white stars · What happens: show, be · To what, where: temperature, 3,000, 5,500, 20,000 ° C. · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Star colours, red stars, Sun, white stars), 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 | Star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 colours | compound |
| 2 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 temperature | nmod:poss |
| 5 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 coolest | punct |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stars | amod |
| 8 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 coolest | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 coolest | cop |
| 10 | coolest | cool | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 show | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 3,000 | case |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 3,000 | advmod |
| 13 | 3,000 | 3000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 coolest | obl |
| 14 | ° | ° | ADP | _ | 15 C | case |
| 15 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 3,000 | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 white | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sun | det |
| 18 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 white | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 white | cop |
| 20 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 white | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 yellow | punct |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 show | ccomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 5,500 | case |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 5,500 | advmod |
| 25 | 5,500 | 5,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 white | obl |
| 26 | ° | ° | ADP | _ | 27 C | case |
| 27 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 5,500 | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 C. | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 C. | cc |
| 30 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 white | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 blue | punct |
| 32 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stars | amod |
| 33 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 C. | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 C. | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 C. | cop |
| 36 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 C. | case |
| 37 | 20,000 | 20000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 C. | nummod |
| 38 | ° | ° | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 C. | compound |
| 39 | C. | c. | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 white | conj |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Star colours | nuclei's temperature | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent temperature=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | red stars | 3,000 ° C | cool property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | the Sun | 5,500 ° C | white property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | can | white stars | 20,000 ° C. | 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:9.
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): R6-punct-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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