The Sun as a star and the stars, sentence 3

The Sun looks bigger and brighter than other stars only because it is much closer, just as a car's headlights look huge near you and like small dots far down the road.

Who acts: Sun, headlights · 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 (Sun, headlights), 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 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 looks	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brighter	cc
6	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bigger	conj
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 stars	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stars	amod
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bigger	obl
10	only	only	ADV	_	15 closer	advmod
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 closer	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 closer	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 closer	cop
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 closer	advmod
15	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 looks	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 look	punct
17	just	just	ADV	_	23 look	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 look	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 car	det
20	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 headlights	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 car	case
22	headlights	headlight	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 look	nsubj
23	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	advcl
24	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 look	xcomp
25	near	near	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 look	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dots	cc
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 dots	case
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dots	amod
30	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 you	conj
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 road	advmod
32	down	down	ADP	_	34 road	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 road	det
34	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dots	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	present	the Sun	big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	Sun	close property	tree rules
3	look	present	a car's headlights	near you; huge property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent near you=Theme

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:3.

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 ×3. 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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