--- title: A star's colour tells its temperature, just like a piece of metal in… — Stars: what they are · tree and pragmatics description: A star's colour tells its temperature, just like a piece of metal in a fire that glows dull red, then yellow, then white as it gets hotter: red stars are coolest and blue-white stars hottest. Who acts: colour, piece, star, red stars. A sentence of the lesson «Stars: what they are» of the space cours --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [Stars: what they are](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/) / 2 # Stars: what they are, sentence 2 A star's colour tells its temperature, just like a piece of metal in a fire that glows dull red, then yellow, then white as it gets hotter: red stars are coolest and blue-white stars hottest. **Who acts:** colour, piece, star, red stars · **What happens:** tell, glow, get, be · **To what, where:** temperature · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (colour, piece, star, red stars), 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:2 # text = A star's colour tells its temperature, just like a piece of metal in a fire that glows dull red, then yellow, then white as it gets hotter: red stars are coolest and blue-white stars hottest. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 glows glow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 20 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 27 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 31 hotter hot ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 xcomp _ _ 32 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 33 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 coolest cool ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 42 hottest hot ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 conj _ _ 43 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a star's colour | star's temperature | | | | like a piece of metal in a fire | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent temperature=Recipient | | 2 | **glow** | present | a piece of metal in a fire | | | | | red *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | star | | | | | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | red stars and white stars | | | | | cool *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | red stars and white stars *not said here* | | | | | | 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:2`. **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 ×2, 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/1/) - next →: [Stars: what they are, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/)