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title: The Sun is a star, an ordinary one, and it looks so different from t… — Stars: what they are · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sun is a star, an ordinary one, and it looks so different from the others only because it is about 270,000 times closer than the next nearest star. Who acts: Sun, it, star. A sentence of the lesson «Stars: what they are» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Stars: what they are, sentence 5

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The Sun is a star, an ordinary one, and it looks so different from the others only because it is about 270,000 times closer than the next nearest star.

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**Who acts:** Sun, it, star · **What happens:** be, look · **To what, where:** star

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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 (Sun, it, 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:5
# text = The Sun is a star, an ordinary one, and it looks so different from the others only because it is about 270,000 times closer 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	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
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	5	conj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	270,000	270,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	advcl	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | the Sun | a star |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | it |  |  |  |  | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | star |  |  |  | time | than the next nearest star; close *property* | tree rules |

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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:5`.

**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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