--- title: Stars twinkle because moving air bends their light; seen from space,… — Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Stars twinkle because moving air bends their light; seen from space, above the air, they shine steadily. Who acts: Stars, moving air. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/) / 17 # Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 17 Stars twinkle because moving air bends their light; seen from space, above the air, they shine steadily. **Who acts:** Stars, moving air · **What happens:** twinkle, move, bend, see, shine, light · **To what, where:** light, space This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» 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 (Stars, moving air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:17 # text = Stars twinkle because moving air bends their light; seen from space, above the air, they shine steadily. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.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 Stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 twinkle twinkle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 above above ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 shine shine VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 steadily steadily ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **twinkle** | present | Stars | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bend** | present | moving air | Stars's light | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material | | 4 | **see** | participle | Stars *= star* *not said here* | | | space | | above the air | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **shine** | present | Stars *= star* | | | | | steadily *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **light** | | Stars *= star* | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:17`. **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: [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/16/) - next →: [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/)