--- title: The Sun is a star, quite an ordinary one: it looks so huge and brigh… — Stars: what they are · tree and pragmatics description: The Sun is a star, quite an ordinary one: it looks so huge and bright only because it is about 270,000 times closer to us than the next nearest star. Who acts: Sun, it. 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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 (Sun, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:017-stars-what-they-are.lesson:0 # text = The Sun is a star, quite an ordinary one: it looks so huge and bright only because it is about 270,000 times closer to us than the next nearest star. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 017-stars-what-they-are.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 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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 10 det:predet _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 270,000 270,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 advcl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 32 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Sun | a star | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | it | quite ordinary one *not said here* | | | | huge *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | present | Sun | | us | | time | than the next nearest star; close *property* | tree rules | 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:017-stars-what-they-are.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): 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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/17/) - next →: [Stars: what they are, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/)