--- title: Sirius in Canis Major is the brightest star in the night sky, about… — Stars: what they are · tree and pragmatics description: Sirius in Canis Major is the brightest star in the night sky, about 25 times brighter than the Sun in real power and about 8.6 light years away (a light year is the distance light travels in a year), which is near for a star. Who acts: Sirius, light year, light, brightest 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 (Sirius, light year, light, brightest star), 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:12 # text = Sirius in Canis Major is the brightest star in the night sky, about 25 times brighter than the Sun in real power and about 8.6 light years away (a light year is the distance light travels in a year), which is near for a 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sirius Sirius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 Canis Canis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Major Major PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 brighter bright ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 18 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 8.6 8.6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 away away ADV RB _ 17 conj _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 37 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 49 nsubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 46 near near ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | Sirius in Canis Major | the brightest star and a star | | the night sky | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | a light year | the distance | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **travel** | present | light | the distance *not said here* | | | year | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | | 4 | **is** | present | the brightest star and a star | | | | | for a star; near *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:12`. **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 ×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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/11/) - next →: [Stars: what they are, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/)