--- title: A shooting star is not a star: it is a bit of space rock, often no b… — The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them · tree and pragmatics description: A shooting star is not a star: it is a bit of space rock, often no bigger than a grain of sand, glowing as it rushes into the air, because the air in front of it gets squashed and very hot. Who acts: shooting star, star. 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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 (shooting star, star), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:16 # text = A shooting star is not a star: it is a bit of space rock, often no bigger than a grain of sand, glowing as it rushes into the air, because the air in front of it gets squashed and very hot. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 shooting shooting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 no no ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg 19 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 glowing glow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nmod _ _ 41 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 very very ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | a shooting star | a star | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | star | a bit | | | | of space rock | tree rules | | 3 | **glow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **rush** | present | star | | | | | into the air *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | | 5 | **squash** | present · passive | | the air in front of star | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:physics:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:16`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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 pull tha…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/15/) - next →: [The Moon, the planets and the pull tha…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/)