How stars die, sentence 5

When a star like the Sun runs short of hydrogen in its core, it swells into a red giant hundreds of times wider than before.

Who acts: star · What happens: run, swell · To what, where: core, red giant, hundreds

This is a sentence of the lesson «How stars die» 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 (star), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 runs	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 star	det
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 runs	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 star	nmod
7	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 swells	advcl
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 runs	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 hydrogen	case
10	hydrogen	hydrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 short	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 core	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 core	nmod:poss
13	core	core	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 runs	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 runs	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 swells	nsubj
16	swells	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 hundreds	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 giant	det
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 giant	amod
20	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swells	obl
21	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 swells	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 times	case
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wider	obl:unmarked
24	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 hundreds	amod
25	than	than	ADP	_	26 before	case
26	before	before	ADV	_	24 wider	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 swells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	a star like the Sun			star's core		short property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in core=Trajectory
2	swell	present	star	a red giant		hundreds			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:019-how-stars-die.lesson:5.

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 ×4. 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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