The Sun as a star and the stars, sentence 1
The other stars are suns too, many bigger and brighter than ours, but they are so far away that they look like tiny points of light.
Who acts: other stars, light · What happens: be, look, point · To what, where: suns, light
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Sun as a star and the stars» of the world 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 (other stars, light), 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 | 3 stars | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stars | amod |
| 3 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 suns | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 suns | cop |
| 5 | suns | sun | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 suns | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bigger | punct |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bigger | nsubj |
| 9 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 suns | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brighter | cc |
| 11 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 bigger | conj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 ours | case |
| 13 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brighter | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 away | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 away | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 away | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 away | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 far | advmod |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 away | advmod |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 suns | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 look | nsubj |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 away | advcl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 points | case |
| 25 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 points | amod |
| 26 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 look | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 light | case |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 points | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the other stars | suns | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | light | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | present | light | like tiny points of light | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | point | light | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:world:005-the-sun-and-the-stars.lesson:1.
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. 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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