--- title: A shooting star is not a star at all: it is a grain of rock or dust,… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics description: A shooting star is not a star at all: it is a grain of rock or dust, often smaller than a grain of sand, rushing into the Earth's air so fast that it glows and burns up. Who acts: shooting star, star, grain. 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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, grain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.lesson:0 # text = A shooting star is not a star at all: it is a grain of rock or dust, often smaller than a grain of sand, rushing into the Earth's air so fast that it glows and burns up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 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 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 rushing rush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 29 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 glows glow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 . . 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 | | all | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | star | a grain | | | | of rock or dust | tree rules | | 3 | **rush** | gerund | a grain *not said here* | | | | | into the Earth's air *result*; fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | | 4 | **glow** | present | star | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **burn up** | present | star *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:space:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.lesson:0`. **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 ×3. **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. 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