--- title: Big stars live fast and die young, like a huge bonfire that burns ou… — How stars live · tree and pragmatics description: Big stars live fast and die young, like a huge bonfire that burns out quickly, while tiny red dwarfs sip their fuel so slowly they can last trillions of years. Who acts: Big stars, huge bonfire, tiny red dwarfs, Stars. A sentence of the lesson «How stars live» of the space course of Mova's primary s --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # How stars live, sentence 3 Big stars live fast and die young, like a huge bonfire that burns out quickly, while tiny red dwarfs sip their fuel so slowly they can last trillions of years. **Who acts:** Big stars, huge bonfire, tiny red dwarfs, Stars · **What happens:** live, die, burn out, sip, last · **To what, where:** fuel, trillions 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 (Big stars, huge bonfire, tiny red dwarfs, 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:3 # text = Big stars live fast and die young, like a huge bonfire that burns out quickly, while tiny red dwarfs sip their fuel so slowly they can last trillions of 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bonfire bonfire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 dwarfs dwarf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 sip sip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 30 trillions trillion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## 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 | **live** | present | Big stars | | | | | like a huge bonfire; fast *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **die** | present | Big stars *not said here* | | | | | young *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **burn out** | present | a huge bonfire | | | | | quickly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sip** | present | tiny red dwarfs | Stars's fuel | | | | slowly *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Patient | | 5 | **last** | can | Stars *= star* | trillions of years | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme trillion=Value | 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:3`. **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): 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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/2/) - next →: [How stars live, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/)