--- title: Star colours show their temperature: red stars are coolest at about… — Stars: what they are · tree and pragmatics description: Star colours show their temperature: red stars are coolest at about 3,000 °C, the Sun is yellow-white at about 5,500 °C, and blue-white stars can be over 20,000 °C. Who acts: Star colours, red stars, Sun, white stars. A sentence of the lesson «Stars: what they are» of the space course of Mova's prim --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Stars: what they are, sentence 9 Star colours show their temperature: red stars are coolest at about 3,000 °C, the Sun is yellow-white at about 5,500 °C, and blue-white stars can be over 20,000 °C. **Who acts:** Star colours, red stars, Sun, white stars · **What happens:** show, be · **To what, where:** temperature, 3,000, 5,500, 20,000 ° C. · **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 (Star colours, red stars, Sun, white 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:9 # text = Star colours show their temperature: red stars are coolest at about 3,000 °C, the Sun is yellow-white at about 5,500 °C, and blue-white stars can be over 20,000 °C. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 coolest cool ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 parataxis _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 3,000 3000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 14 ° ° ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 5,500 5,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 26 ° ° ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 30 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 36 over over ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 20,000 20000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 38 ° ° NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 C. c. NOUN NN Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Star colours | nuclei's temperature | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent temperature=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | red stars | | | 3,000 ° C | | cool *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the Sun | | | 5,500 ° C | | white *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | can | white stars | | | 20,000 ° C. | | | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/8/) - next →: [Stars: what they are, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/)