--- title: Then it gently puffs off its outer layers as a glowing shell, a plan… — How stars die · tree and pragmatics description: Then it gently puffs off its outer layers as a glowing shell, a planetary nebula, and what is left is a white dwarf: about the size of the Earth but so packed that a teaspoon of it would weigh more than a car. Who acts: Sun, teaspoon. A sentence of the lesson «How stars die» of the space course of M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/1/) [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 die](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/) / 1 # How stars die, sentence 1 Then it gently puffs off its outer layers as a glowing shell, a planetary nebula, and what is left is a white dwarf: about the size of the Earth but so packed that a teaspoon of it would weigh more than a car. **Who acts:** Sun, teaspoon · **What happens:** puff off, glow, leave, be, pack, weigh · **To what, where:** outer layers, white dwarf, more This is a sentence of the lesson «How stars die» 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 (Sun, teaspoon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:019-how-stars-die.lesson:1 # text = Then it gently puffs off its outer layers as a glowing shell, a planetary nebula, and what is left is a white dwarf: about the size of the Earth but so packed that a teaspoon of it would weigh more than a car. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 019-how-stars-die.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 ×4 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 gently gently ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 puffs puff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 glowing glow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 amod _ _ 12 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 planetary planetary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 nebula nebula NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 26 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 packed pack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 teaspoon teaspoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nmod _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 43 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 obj _ _ 44 than than ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **puff off** | present | Sun | Sun's outer layers | | | then | as a glowing shell; gently *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location layer=Source | | 2 | **glow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a white dwarf | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pack** | past | Sun *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **weigh** | would | a teaspoon of Sun | more | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=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:019-how-stars-die.lesson:1`. **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 ×4. **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 die, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/0/) - next →: [How stars die, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/)