--- title: A shooting star is not a star at all but a tiny grain of rock or dus… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics description: A shooting star is not a star at all but a tiny grain of rock or dust, often smaller than a grain of sand, burning up as it rushes into the Earth's air. 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:space:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.lesson:5 # text = A shooting star is not a star at all but a tiny grain of rock or dust, often smaller than a grain of sand, burning up as it rushes into the Earth's air. # 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): 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 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos 21 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 advcl _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **not** **is a** | present | a shooting star | a star but a tiny grain of rock or dust | | all | | | tree rules | | 2 | **burn up** | gerund | a shooting star *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rush** | present | star | | | | | into the Earth's air *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | 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:5`. **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 ×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: [Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/4/) - next →: [Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/)