--- title: It is a small piece of space rock, often no bigger than a grain of s… — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics description: It is a small piece of space rock, often no bigger than a grain of sand, that rushes into the air so fast that it heats up and burns, leaving a bright streak. Who acts: star, small piece. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star, small piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:1 # text = It is a small piece of space rock, often no bigger than a grain of sand, that rushes into the air so fast that it heats up and burns, leaving a bright streak. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 no no ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg 12 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 streak streak NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | star | a small piece | | | | of space rock | tree rules | | 2 | **rush** | present | a small piece | | | | | into the air *result*; fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | | 3 | **heat up** | present | star | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **burn** | present | star *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | gerund | star *not said here* | a bright streak | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent streak=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.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): R7-rel-agree ×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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The night sky and outdoor myths, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/0/) - next →: [The night sky and outdoor myths, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/)