How stars die, sentence 7
At the end of its giant stage, a Sun-like star gently puffs off its outer layers as a glowing shell called a planetary nebula.
Who acts: like star, glowing shell · What happens: puff off, call · To what, where: outer layers, end, planetary nebula · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (like star, glowing shell), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 puffs | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stage | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stage | nmod:poss |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stage | amod |
| 7 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 star | det |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 like | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 star | amod |
| 13 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 puffs | nsubj |
| 14 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 15 puffs | advmod |
| 15 | puffs | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 puffs | compound:prt |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 layers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 layers | amod |
| 19 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 puffs | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 shell | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 shell | det |
| 22 | glowing | glow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shell | amod |
| 23 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 puffs | obl |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 shell | acl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 nebula | det |
| 26 | planetary | planetary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 nebula | amod |
| 27 | nebula | nebula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 puffs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff off | present | a like star | star's outer layers | at the end of end's giant stage | as a glowing shell; gently property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location layer=Source | ||
| 2 | call | participle | a glowing shell not said here | a planetary nebula | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:019-how-stars-die.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): 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.
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