How stars live, sentence 11

A star's mass decides how long it lives: a star 10 times heavier than the Sun lasts only about 20 to 30 million years, while small red dwarfs can last trillions of years.

Who acts: mass, star, small red dwarfs · What happens: decide, live, last · To what, where: trillions · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mass, star, small red dwarfs), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 star	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mass	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 star	case
4	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 decides	nsubj
5	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 lives	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lives	nsubj
9	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 decides	ccomp
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 heavier	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 star	det
12	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lasts	nsubj
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 heavier	obl:unmarked
15	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 star	amod
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 Sun	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Sun	det
18	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 heavier	obl
19	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lives	parataxis
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 about	advmod
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 20	advmod
22	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 million	compound
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 30	case
24	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 20	nmod
25	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 years	nummod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lasts	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lasts	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 last	mark
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dwarfs	amod
30	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dwarfs	amod
31	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 last	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 last	aux
33	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lasts	advcl
34	trillions	trillion	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 last	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 years	case
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 trillions	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 decides	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	a star's mass				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	present	mass			long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	last	present	a star		year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	last	can	small red dwarfs	trillions of years			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme trillion=Value

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:11.

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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