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title: The Sun is not calm: it has dark sunspots, flares and a wind of part… — The Sun, our star · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sun is not calm: it has dark sunspots, flares and a wind of particles that, when it hits the Earth's magnetic field, lights up the northern lights. Who acts: Sun, wind. A sentence of the lesson «The Sun, our star» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Sun, our star, sentence 4

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The Sun is not calm: it has dark sunspots, flares and a wind of particles that, when it hits the Earth's magnetic field, lights up the northern lights.

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**Who acts:** Sun, wind · **What happens:** not be, have, hit, light up, wind · **To what, where:** dark sunspots, magnetic field, northern lights, particles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Sun, our star» of the space 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 (Sun, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:001-the-sun-our-star.lesson:4
# text = The Sun is not calm: it has dark sunspots, flares and a wind of particles that, when it hits the Earth's magnetic field, lights up the northern lights.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 001-the-sun-our-star.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sunspots	sunspot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	flares	flare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	lights	light	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | the Sun |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Sun | dark sunspots and flares and a wind of particles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunspot=Patient |
| 3 | **hit** | present | Sun | the Earth's magnetic field |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **light up** | present | a wind of particles | the northern lights |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product |
| 5 | **wind** |  |  | particles |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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:space:001-the-sun-our-star.lesson:4`.

**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): 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/).

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