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title: Stars born from the same cloud often stay together for a while as a… — How stars live · tree and pragmatics
description: Stars born from the same cloud often stay together for a while as a cluster, like the Pleiades, about 440 light years away and about 100 million years old. Who acts: Stars. A sentence of the lesson «How stars live» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# How stars live, sentence 15

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Stars born from the same cloud often stay together for a while as a cluster, like the Pleiades, about 440 light years away and about 100 million years old.

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**Who acts:** Stars · **What happens:** bear, stay together · **To what, where:** Stars, same cloud

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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 (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:15
# text = Stars born from the same cloud often stay together for a while as a cluster, like the Pleiades, about 440 light years away and about 100 million years old.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cluster	cluster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Pleiades	Pleiades	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	440	440	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **bear** | participle |  | Stars *not said here* |  | the same cloud |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stay together** | present | Stars |  |  |  | while | as a cluster; like the Pleiades  440 light years; often, together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:018-how-stars-live.lesson:15`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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