--- title: Betelgeuse, Orion's red shoulder, is a dying red supergiant that wil… — How stars die · tree and pragmatics description: Betelgeuse, Orion's red shoulder, is a dying red supergiant that will explode as a supernova sometime within about the next 100,000 years; nobody can say exactly when. Who acts: Betelgeuse, dying red supergiant, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «How stars die» 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/19-how-stars-die/15/) [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/) / 15 # How stars die, sentence 15 Betelgeuse, Orion's red shoulder, is a dying red supergiant that will explode as a supernova sometime within about the next 100,000 years; nobody can say exactly when. **Who acts:** Betelgeuse, dying red supergiant, nobody · **What happens:** die, be, explode, say · **To what, where:** dying red supergiant · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Betelgeuse, dying red supergiant, nobody), 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:15 # text = Betelgeuse, Orion's red shoulder, is a dying red supergiant that will explode as a supernova sometime within about the next 100,000 years; nobody can say exactly when. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Betelgeuse Betelgeuse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 Orion Orion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 dying die VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 amod _ _ 11 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 supergiant supergiant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 explode explode VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 supernova supernova NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 sometime sometime ADV RB PronType=Ind 15 advmod _ _ 20 within within ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 100,000 100000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 30 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:ccomp 32 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | present | Betelgeuse | a dying red supergiant | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **explode** | future | a dying red supergiant | | | | year | as a supernova; sometime *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | nobody | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/13/) - next →: [How stars die, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/)