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title: The colour of a star shows how hot it is: blue stars are hotter than… — The Sun as a star and the stars · tree and pragmatics
description: The colour of a star shows how hot it is: blue stars are hotter than red stars. Who acts: colour, star, blue stars. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sun as a star and the stars, sentence 14

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The colour of a star shows how hot it is: blue stars are hotter than red stars.

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**Who acts:** colour, star, blue stars · **What happens:** show, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (colour, star, blue stars), 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:14
# text = The colour of a star shows how hot it is: blue stars are hotter than red stars.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	parataxis	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **show** | present | the colour of a star |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | star |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | blue stars |  |  |  |  | than red stars; hot *property* | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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): no change. **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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