--- title: The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula are towering columns of… — How stars live · tree and pragmatics description: The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula are towering columns of gas and dust, each several light years tall, where new stars are forming. Who acts: Pillars, new stars. A sentence of the lesson «How stars live» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # How stars live, sentence 7 The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula are towering columns of gas and dust, each several light years tall, where new stars are forming. **Who acts:** Pillars, new stars · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** towering columns 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 (Pillars, new 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:7 # text = The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula are towering columns of gas and dust, each several light years tall, where new stars are forming. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Creation creation PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Eagle Eagle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Nebula Nebula PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 towering tower ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 columns column NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 18 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj 21 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 acl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 24 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 forming form VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **is a** | present | the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula | towering columns | | | | of gas and dust | tree rules | | 2 | **form** | present · progressive | new stars | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:7`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/6/) - next →: [How stars live, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/)