--- title: A piece of space rock is a meteoroid while in space, a meteor while… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics description: A piece of space rock is a meteoroid while in space, a meteor while it glows in the air, and a meteorite if any of it lands on the ground. Who acts: piece, any. 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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 (piece, any), 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:6 # text = A piece of space rock is a meteoroid while in space, a meteor while it glows in the air, and a meteorite if any of it lands on the ground. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 meteoroid meteoroid NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 meteor meteor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 glows glow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 meteorite meteorite NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 29 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ _ 29 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **is a** | present | a piece of space rock | a meteoroid and a meteor and a meteorite | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **glow** | present | piece | | | the air | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | | 3 | **land** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any | | | the ground | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on ground=Destination | 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:6`. **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): no change. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/5/) - next →: [Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/)