--- title: A star is a giant ball of hot gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, that… — Stars: what they are · tree and pragmatics description: A star is a giant ball of hot gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, that makes its own light: deep in the Sun's core, at about 15 million °C, hydrogen is squeezed into helium and gives out enormous energy. Who acts: star, giant ball. 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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 (star, giant ball), 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:1 # text = A star is a giant ball of hot gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, that makes its own light: deep in the Sun's core, at about 15 million °C, hydrogen is squeezed into helium and gives out enormous energy. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 hydrogen hydrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 helium helium NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 deep deep ADV RB _ 17 parataxis _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 core core NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 31 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 compound _ _ 32 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 conj _ _ 33 ° ° SYM SYM _ 34 case _ _ 34 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 hydrogen hydrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 squeezed squeeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 helium helium NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 43 out out ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | a star | a giant ball | | | | of hot gas | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | a giant ball | star's own light | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product | | 3 | **squeeze** | present · passive | | hydrogen | | helium | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into helium=Product | | 4 | **give out** | present | | enormous energy | | | | out *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 5 | **light** | | star | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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:1`. **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. **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: [Stars: what they are, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/0/) - next →: [Stars: what they are, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/)