--- title: Stars more than about 8 times as heavy as the Sun die violently in a… — How stars die · tree and pragmatics description: Stars more than about 8 times as heavy as the Sun die violently in a supernova, an explosion that for weeks can outshine a whole galaxy, like a firework that briefly lights up a whole city. Who acts: Stars, explosion, firework. A sentence of the lesson «How stars die» of the space course of Mova's p --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # How stars die, sentence 2 Stars more than about 8 times as heavy as the Sun die violently in a supernova, an explosion that for weeks can outshine a whole galaxy, like a firework that briefly lights up a whole city. **Who acts:** Stars, explosion, firework · **What happens:** die, outshine, light up · **To what, where:** whole galaxy, whole city 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 (Stars, explosion, firework), 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:2 # text = Stars more than about 8 times as heavy as the Sun die violently in a supernova, an explosion that for weeks can outshine a whole galaxy, like a firework that briefly lights up a whole city. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 3 than than ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 acl _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 violently violently ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 supernova supernova NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 explosion explosion NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 outshine outshine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 galaxy galaxy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 firework firework NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 33 briefly briefly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 lights light VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **die** | present | Stars | | | | | in a supernova; violently *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in supernova=Attribute | | 2 | **outshine** | can | a explosion | a whole galaxy | | | week | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot galaxy=Theme | | 3 | **light up** | present | a firework | a whole city | | | | briefly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Product | 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:2`. **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 ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/1/) - next →: [How stars die, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/)