--- title: Stars also build heavier elements, so most of the carbon and oxygen… — How stars live · tree and pragmatics description: Stars also build heavier elements, so most of the carbon and oxygen in your body was made inside stars that lived and died before the Sun was born. 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 pragmatics of e --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # How stars live, sentence 4 Stars also build heavier elements, so most of the carbon and oxygen in your body was made inside stars that lived and died before the Sun was born. **Who acts:** Stars · **What happens:** build, make, live, die, bear · **To what, where:** heavier elements, most, stars, Sun 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:4 # text = Stars also build heavier elements, so most of the carbon and oxygen in your body was made inside stars that lived and died before the Sun was born. # 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 Stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 elements element NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 8 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 19 inside inside ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 before before SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present | Stars | heavier elements | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset element=Product | | 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 | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **die** | past | stars *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **bear** | past · passive | | the Sun | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:4`. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/3/) - next →: [How stars live, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/)