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title: The nearest star after the Sun is more than four light-years away; a… — The Sun as a star and the stars · tree and pragmatics
description: The nearest star after the Sun is more than four light-years away; a light-year is how far light travels in one year. Who acts: nearest star, light year. 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 pragmatic
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# The Sun as a star and the stars, sentence 9

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The nearest star after the Sun is more than four light-years away; a light-year is how far light travels in one year.

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**Who acts:** nearest star, light year · **What happens:** 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 (nearest star, light year), 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:9
# text = The nearest star after the Sun is more than four light-years away; a light-year is how far light travels in one year.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** | present | the nearest star after the Sun |  |  |  |  | away, more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a light year |  |  |  | year | far, travel *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:9`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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