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title: The other stars are suns too, many bigger and brighter than ours, bu… — The Sun as a star and the stars · tree and pragmatics
description: The other stars are suns too, many bigger and brighter than ours, but they are so far away that they look like tiny points of light. Who acts: other stars, light. A sentence of the lesson «The Sun as a star and the stars» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Sun as a star and the stars, sentence 1

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The other stars are suns too, many bigger and brighter than ours, but they are so far away that they look like tiny points of light.

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**Who acts:** other stars, light · **What happens:** be, look, point · **To what, where:** suns, light

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Sun as a star and the stars» of the world 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 (other stars, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:005-the-sun-and-the-stars.lesson:1
# text = The other stars are suns too, many bigger and brighter than ours, but they are so far away that they look like tiny points of light.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 005-the-sun-and-the-stars.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	suns	sun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the other stars | suns |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | light |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | light |  |  |  |  | like tiny points of light | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | light |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:world:005-the-sun-and-the-stars.lesson:1`.

**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/).

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