The Sun as a star and the stars, sentence 13
Stars look small because they are very far away.
Who acts: Stars, light · What happens: look, be
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 (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 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 look | xcomp |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 away | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 away | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 away | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 look | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Stars | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | light | away, far property | tree rules |
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:13.
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.
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