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title: Shooting stars are tiny bits of space rock and dust burning up in ou… — The Moon, the planets and the stars · tree and pragmatics
description: Shooting stars are tiny bits of space rock and dust burning up in our air; real stars are enormous and very far away. Who acts: Shooting stars, space rock, real stars. A sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the stars» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# The Moon, the planets and the stars, sentence 8

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Shooting stars are tiny bits of space rock and dust burning up in our air; real stars are enormous and very far away.

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**Who acts:** Shooting stars, space rock, real stars · **What happens:** be, burn up · **To what, where:** tiny bits, air

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the stars» of the myths 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 (Shooting stars, space rock, real stars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.lesson:8
# text = Shooting stars are tiny bits of space rock and dust burning up in our air; real stars are enormous and very far away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Shooting stars | tiny bits |  |  |  | of space rock and dust | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn up** | gerund | space rock and dust *not said here* |  |  | our air |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | real stars |  |  |  |  | enormous *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:myths:014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.lesson:8`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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