--- title: What remains of a Sun-like star is a white dwarf, about the size of… — How stars die · tree and pragmatics description: What remains of a Sun-like star is a white dwarf, about the size of the Earth but with roughly half the Sun's mass, so a teaspoon of it would weigh several tonnes, more than a car. Who acts: white dwarf, teaspoon. A sentence of the lesson «How stars die» of the space course of Mova's primary school --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # How stars die, sentence 8 What remains of a Sun-like star is a white dwarf, about the size of the Earth but with roughly half the Sun's mass, so a teaspoon of it would weigh several tonnes, more than a car. **Who acts:** white dwarf, teaspoon · **What happens:** remain, be, weigh · **To what, where:** white dwarf, several tonnes 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 (white dwarf, 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:8 # text = What remains of a Sun-like star is a white dwarf, about the size of the Earth but with roughly half the Sun's mass, so a teaspoon of it would weigh several tonnes, 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 ×1 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 remains remain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 csubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 22 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 27 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 mass mass NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 teaspoon teaspoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 36 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 tonnes tonne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 40 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 . . 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 | **remain** | present | a white dwarf and the size of the Earth but the Sun's mass | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a white dwarf and the size of the Earth but the Sun's mass | | | | of a Sun like star | tree rules | | 3 | **weigh** | would | a teaspoon of star | several tonnes | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=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:8`. **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 die, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/7/) - next →: [How stars die, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/)