Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky, sentence 3

The stars in a constellation only look close together: they lie in about the same direction from us, but some are many times farther away than others.

Who acts: stars, some · What happens: look, lie in, be

This is a sentence of the lesson «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky» 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, some), 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 stars	det
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 look	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 constellation	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 constellation	det
5	constellation	constellation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stars	nmod
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp
9	together	together	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lie	nsubj
12	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 look	parataxis
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 lie	advmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	17 direction	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 direction	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 direction	amod
17	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 us	case
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 direction	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 away	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 away	cc
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 away	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 away	cop
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 times	amod
25	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 farther	obl:unmarked
26	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 away	advmod
27	away	away	ADV	_	7 look	parataxis
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 others	case
29	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 away	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	present	the stars in a constellation	close, together property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	lie in	present	stars = star	about the same direction from us	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about direction=Location
3	is	present	some	than others; 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:070-the-night-sky.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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