The Sun as a star and the stars, sentence 14

The colour of a star shows how hot it is: blue stars are hotter than red stars.

Who acts: colour, star, blue stars · What happens: show, be · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (colour, star, blue 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 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shows	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 star	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 star	det
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	nmod
6	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hot	advmod
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shows	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hot	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hot	cop
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 hotter	punct
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stars	amod
13	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hotter	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hotter	cop
15	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 shows	parataxis
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 stars	case
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stars	amod
18	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hotter	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	show	present	the colour of a star		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	star	hot property	tree rules
3	is	present	blue stars	than red stars; hot 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:14.

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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