--- title: Polaris, the North Star, is not the brightest star; Sirius is the br… — The Moon, the planets and the stars · tree and pragmatics description: Polaris, the North Star, is not the brightest star; Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, and Polaris is useful because it stays almost still above the North Pole. Who acts: Polaris, Sirius, sky. 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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 (Polaris, Sirius, sky), 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:9 # text = Polaris, the North Star, is not the brightest star; Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, and Polaris is useful because it stays almost still above the North Pole. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Polaris Polaris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Star Star PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 Sirius Sirius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 Polaris Polaris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 almost almost ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 above above ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Polaris | the brightest star | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Sirius | the brightest star | | the night sky | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | Polaris | | | | | useful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **stay** | present | sky | | | the North Pole | still | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above pole=Location | 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:myths:014-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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 Moon, the planets and the stars, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/14-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars/8/) - next →: [The Moon, the planets and the stars, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/14-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/14-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-stars/)