--- title: Bright stars are at very different distances: Sirius is about 8.6 li… — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics description: Bright stars are at very different distances: Sirius is about 8.6 light years away, Vega about 25, Polaris about 430, and Deneb probably more than 1,500. Who acts: Bright stars, Sirius. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bright stars, Sirius), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:022-distances-and-light-years.lesson:14 # text = Bright stars are at very different distances: Sirius is about 8.6 light years away, Vega about 25, Polaris about 430, and Deneb probably more than 1,500. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 022-distances-and-light-years.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 distances distance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 9 Sirius Sirius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 8.6 8.6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 14 nummod _ _ 13 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 7 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Vega vega PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 21 Polaris Polaris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 430 430 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 list _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 Deneb Deneb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 27 probably probably ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 obl _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1,500 1,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | present | Bright stars | | | | | at different distances | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | Sirius | | | | year | more *obl*; away *property* | tree rules | 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:022-distances-and-light-years.lesson:14`. **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, R6-punct-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: [Distances and light years, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/13/) - next →: [Distances and light years, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/)