How stars live, sentence 10

The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old, roughly halfway through its life of about 10 billion years as a normal star.

Who acts: Sun · What happens: be · To what, where: life

This is a sentence of the lesson «How stars live» 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), 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	8 old	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 billion	advmod
5	4.6	4.6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 billion	compound
6	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 old	obl:unmarked
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	11 halfway	advmod
11	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	14 life	advmod
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 life	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 old	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 years	case
16	about	about	ADV	_	18 billion	advmod
17	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 billion	compound
18	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 life	nmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 star	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 star	det
22	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 star	amod
23	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 old	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun			Sun's life of billion years	year	as a normal star; old 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:018-how-stars-live.lesson:10.

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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