--- title: A meteoroid is a small space rock, a meteor is its streak of light i… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics description: A meteoroid is a small space rock, a meteor is its streak of light in the sky as it burns up in our air, and a meteorite is a piece that reaches the ground. Who acts: meteoroid, meteor, meteorite, piece. 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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 (meteoroid, meteor, meteorite, piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.lesson:16 # text = A meteoroid is a small space rock, a meteor is its streak of light in the sky as it burns up in our air, and a meteorite is a piece that reaches the ground. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.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 2 det _ _ 2 meteoroid meteoroid NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 meteor meteor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 streak streak NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 meteorite meteorite NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . 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 a** | present | a meteoroid | a small space rock and a piece | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | a meteor | meteor's streak | | the sky | | of light | tree rules | | 3 | **burn up** | present | meteoroid | | | our air | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | a meteorite | a piece | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **reach** | present | a piece | the ground | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | 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:009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.lesson:16`. **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: [Asteroids and the asteroid belt, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/15/) - next →: [Jupiter, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/)