How stars live, sentence 7
The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula are towering columns of gas and dust, each several light years tall, where new stars are forming.
Who acts: Pillars, new stars · What happens: be, form · To what, where: towering columns
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 (Pillars, new 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Pillars | det |
| 2 | Pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 columns | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Creation | case |
| 4 | Creation | creation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pillars | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Nebula | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Nebula | det |
| 7 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Nebula | compound |
| 8 | Nebula | Nebula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pillars | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 columns | cop |
| 10 | towering | tower | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 columns | amod |
| 11 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gas | case |
| 13 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 columns | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dust | cc |
| 15 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gas | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 columns | punct |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 years | det |
| 18 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 years | amod |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 years | compound |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tall | obl |
| 21 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 columns | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tall | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 forming | advmod |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stars | amod |
| 25 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 forming | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 forming | aux |
| 27 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 columns | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 columns | punct |
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 | is a | present | the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula | towering columns | of gas and dust | tree rules | |||
| 2 | form | present · progressive | new stars | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:7.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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