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title: Many stars are not alone but come in pairs or groups orbiting each o… — Stars: what they are · tree and pragmatics
description: Many stars are not alone but come in pairs or groups orbiting each other, and Sirius has a tiny white dwarf partner. Who acts: Many stars, pairs, Sirius. A sentence of the lesson «Stars: what they are» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Stars: what they are, sentence 13

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Many stars are not alone but come in pairs or groups orbiting each other, and Sirius has a tiny white dwarf partner.

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**Who acts:** Many stars, pairs, Sirius · **What happens:** not be, come, orbit, have · **To what, where:** pairs, each, tiny white dwarf partner

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Stars: what they are» of the space course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many stars, pairs, Sirius), 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:13
# text = Many stars are not alone but come in pairs or groups orbiting each other, and Sirius has a tiny white dwarf partner.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	orbiting	orbit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	12	obj	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Sirius	Sirius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Many stars |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | Many stars *not said here* |  |  | pairs or groups |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=Location |
| 3 | **orbit** | gerund | pairs or groups *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | Sirius | a tiny white dwarf partner |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient |

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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.

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**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:13`.

**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/).

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