--- title: A star's colour is a thermometer: red stars are the coolest, yellow… — Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A star's colour is a thermometer: red stars are the coolest, yellow ones like the Sun sit in the middle and blue-white ones are the hottest - the opposite of the red and blue taps on a sink. Who acts: colour, red stars, coolest yellow ones, white ones. 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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 (colour, red stars, coolest yellow ones, white ones), 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:2 # text = A star's colour is a thermometer: red stars are the coolest, yellow ones like the Sun sit in the middle and blue-white ones are the hottest - the opposite of the red and blue taps on a sink. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 thermometer thermometer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 9 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 13 coolest cool ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 20 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 27 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hottest hot ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 conj _ _ 32 - - PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 37 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ _ 40 taps tap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 sink sink NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a star's colour | a thermometer | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | red stars | coolest yellow ones and the opposite of the red taps on a sink | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sit** | present | coolest yellow ones and the opposite of the red taps on a sink *not said here* | | | the middle | | like the Sun | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | white ones | | | | | hot *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:032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.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. **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: [Olympiad: stars, light and space histo…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/1/) - next →: [Olympiad: stars, light and space histo…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/)