--- title: Stars build heavier elements from lighter ones, so most of the carbo… — How stars live · tree and pragmatics description: Stars build heavier elements from lighter ones, so most of the carbon and oxygen in your body was made inside stars that lived before the Sun. Who acts: Stars. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stars), 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:14 # text = Stars build heavier elements from lighter ones, so most of the carbon and oxygen in your body was made inside stars that lived before the Sun. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 elements element NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 9 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 10 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 inside inside ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 before before ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Sun. Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present | Stars | heavier elements | | | | from lighter ones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset element=Product from one=Material | | 2 | **make** | past · passive | | most of the carbon in your body and oxygen | | stars | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **live** | past | stars | | | the Sun. | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before sun=Location | 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:14`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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: [How stars live, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/13/) - next →: [How stars live, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/)