--- title: Meteor showers come on about the same dates each year when the Earth… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics description: Meteor showers come on about the same dates each year when the Earth passes through a dust trail, and all their meteors seem to fly out of one point, the radiant. Who acts: Meteor showers, Earth, meteors. 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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 (Meteor showers, Earth, meteors), 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:3 # text = Meteor showers come on about the same dates each year when the Earth passes through a dust trail, and all their meteors seem to fly out of one point, the radiant. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Meteor meteor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 showers shower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl 15 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 meteors meteor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 out out ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 radiant radiant NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come on** | present | Meteor showers | | | | year | about the same dates | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about date=Location | | 2 | **pass** | present | the Earth | | | a dust trail | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through trail=Location | | 3 | **seem** | present | showers's meteors | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **fly out** | to-infinitive | showers's meteors *not said here* | one point | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location point=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:3`. **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, 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: [Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/2/) - next →: [Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/)