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title: The Sun looks bigger and brighter than other stars only because it i… — The Sun as a star and the stars · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sun looks bigger and brighter than other stars only because it is much closer, just as a car's headlights look huge near you and like small dots far down the road. Who acts: Sun, headlights. A sentence of the lesson «The Sun as a star and the stars» of the world course of Mova's primary school w
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# The Sun as a star and the stars, sentence 3

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The Sun looks bigger and brighter than other stars only because it is much closer, just as a car's headlights look huge near you and like small dots far down the road.

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**Who acts:** Sun, headlights · **What happens:** look, be

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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 (Sun, headlights), 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:3
# text = The Sun looks bigger and brighter than other stars only because it is much closer, just as a car's headlights look huge near you and like small dots far down the road.
# 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 ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	headlights	headlight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
24	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **look** | present | the Sun |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Sun |  |  |  |  | close *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | a car's headlights |  |  |  |  | near you; huge *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent near you=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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 ×3. **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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