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title: A Sun-like star swells into a red giant, puffs off a planetary nebul… — Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A Sun-like star swells into a red giant, puffs off a planetary nebula and ends as a white dwarf about the size of the Earth. Who acts: Sun like star. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★, sentence 10

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A Sun-like star swells into a red giant, puffs off a planetary nebula and ends as a white dwarf about the size of the Earth.

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**Who acts:** Sun like star · **What happens:** swell, puff off, end · **To what, where:** planetary nebula

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» 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 (Sun like star), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.lesson:10
# text = A Sun-like star swells into a red giant, puffs off a planetary nebula and ends as a white dwarf about the size of the Earth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swells	swell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	puffs	puff	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	planetary	planetary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	nebula	nebula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swell** | present | a Sun like star |  |  |  |  | into a red giant | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **puff off** | present | a Sun like star *not said here* | a planetary nebula |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nebula=Source |
| 3 | **end** | present | a Sun like star *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a white dwarf about the size of the Earth | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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:032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.lesson:10`.

**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/).

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