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title: Stars have different colours: the hottest are blue-white, our Sun is… — The Sun as a star and the stars · tree and pragmatics
description: Stars have different colours: the hottest are blue-white, our Sun is yellow-white, and cooler stars are orange or red. Who acts: Stars, hottest, Sun, cooler 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
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# The Sun as a star and the stars, sentence 4

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Stars have different colours: the hottest are blue-white, our Sun is yellow-white, and cooler stars are orange or red.

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**Who acts:** Stars, hottest, Sun, cooler stars · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** different colours

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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 (Stars, hottest, Sun, cooler 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:4
# text = Stars have different colours: the hottest are blue-white, our Sun is yellow-white, and cooler stars are orange or red.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
7	hottest	hot	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	cooler	cool	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Stars | different colours |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the hottest |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | our Sun |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | cooler stars |  |  |  |  | orange *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | cooler stars *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:4`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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