How stars live, sentence 6
Before fusion starts, a young star is a protostar, glowing from the heat of its own collapse and hidden in dust.
Who acts: fusion, young star, protostar, own collapse · What happens: start, be, glow, hide, heat, collapse · To what, where: protostar, heat, dust
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 (fusion, young star, protostar, own collapse), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 starts | mark |
| 2 | fusion | fusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 protostar | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 star | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 star | amod |
| 7 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 protostar | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 protostar | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 protostar | det |
| 10 | protostar | protostar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glowing | punct |
| 12 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 protostar | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 heat | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heat | det |
| 15 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glowing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 collapse | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 collapse | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 collapse | amod |
| 19 | collapse | collapse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heat | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hidden | cc |
| 21 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 glowing | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 dust | case |
| 23 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hidden | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 protostar | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | fusion | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a young star | a protostar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | glow | gerund | a protostar not said here | the heat of fusion's own collapse | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hide | participle | a protostar not said here | dust | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dust=Location | ||||
| 5 | heat | fusion's own collapse | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | collapse | fusion | nom collapse «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:6.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/6/