--- title: The Sun is slowly getting brighter, by about 10% every billion years. — How stars live · tree and pragmatics description: The Sun is slowly getting brighter, by about 10% every billion years. Who acts: Sun. A sentence of the lesson «How stars live» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/13/) [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/) / [How stars live](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/) / 13 # How stars live, sentence 13 The Sun is slowly getting brighter, by about 10% every billion years. **Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** get, be This is a sentence of the lesson «How stars live» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:018-how-stars-live.lesson:13 # text = The Sun is slowly getting brighter, by about 10% every billion years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 018-how-stars-live.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:xcomp 6 brighter bright ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 13 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | the Sun | | | | year | bright, slowly *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:018-how-stars-live.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): R5-strong ×2. **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: [How stars live, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/12/) - next →: [How stars live, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/)