--- title: A black hole is not a hole and not a cosmic vacuum cleaner: it is a… — Black holes · tree and pragmatics description: A black hole is not a hole and not a cosmic vacuum cleaner: it is a huge amount of mass squeezed into a tiny space, so its gravity is so strong that not even light can get out. Who acts: black hole, hole, gravity, light. A sentence of the lesson «Black holes» of the space course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/25-black-holes/0/) [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/) / [Black holes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/25-black-holes/) / 0 # Black holes, sentence 0 A black hole is not a hole and not a cosmic vacuum cleaner: it is a huge amount of mass squeezed into a tiny space, so its gravity is so strong that not even light can get out. **Who acts:** black hole, hole, gravity, light · **What happens:** not be, be, squeeze, get out · **To what, where:** hole, huge amount, tiny space This is a sentence of the lesson «Black holes» 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 (black hole, hole, gravity, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:025-black-holes.lesson:0 # text = A black hole is not a hole and not a cosmic vacuum cleaner: it is a huge amount of mass squeezed into a tiny space, so its gravity is so strong that not even light can get out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 025-black-holes.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 cosmic cosmic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 vacuum vacuum NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 cleaner cleaner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 mass mass NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 squeezed squeeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:advmod 36 even even ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:ccomp 40 out out ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a black hole | a hole and a cosmic vacuum cleaner | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | hole | a huge amount | | | | of mass | tree rules | | 3 | **squeeze** | participle | | a huge amount *not said here* | | a tiny space | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into space=Trajectory | | 4 | **is** | present | hole's gravity | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **get out** | can | light | | | | | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: 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:025-black-holes.lesson:0`. **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, 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: [Galaxies and the Big Bang, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang/17/) - next →: [Black holes, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/25-black-holes/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/25-black-holes/)