How stars live, sentence 14
Stars build heavier elements from lighter ones, so most of the carbon and oxygen in your body was made inside stars that lived before the Sun.
Who acts: Stars · What happens: build, make, live · To what, where: heavier elements, most, stars, Sun.
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 (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 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | nsubj |
| 2 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 elements | amod |
| 4 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 ones | case |
| 6 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 made | advmod |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 carbon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 carbon | det |
| 13 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 most | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 oxygen | cc |
| 15 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carbon | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carbon | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 build | parataxis |
| 21 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 22 stars | case |
| 22 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 made | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 lived | nsubj |
| 24 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stars | acl:relcl |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 Sun. | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sun. | det |
| 27 | Sun. | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 lived | obl |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | Stars | heavier elements | from lighter ones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset element=Product from one=Material | |||
| 2 | make | past · passive | most of the carbon in your body and oxygen | stars | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | live | past | stars | the Sun. | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before sun=Location |
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:14.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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