--- title: The stars in a constellation only look close together: they lie in a… — Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky · tree and pragmatics description: The stars in a constellation only look close together: they lie in about the same direction from us, but some are many times farther away than others. Who acts: stars, some. A sentence of the lesson «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky» of the world course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Stars, planets and constellations in t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/) / 3 # Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky, sentence 3 The stars in a constellation only look close together: they lie in about the same direction from us, but some are many times farther away than others. **Who acts:** stars, some · **What happens:** look, lie in, be This is a sentence of the lesson «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky» 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, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:070-the-night-sky.lesson:3 # text = The stars in a constellation only look close together: they lie in about the same direction from us, but some are many times farther away than others. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 070-the-night-sky.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 constellation constellation NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 6 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 13 in in ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl:unmarked 26 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 27 away away ADV RB _ 7 parataxis _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | the stars in a constellation | | | | | close, together *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **lie in** | present | stars *= star* | | | | | about the same direction from us | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about direction=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | some | | | | | than others; away, far *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:070-the-night-sky.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Stars, planets and constellations in t…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/2/) - next →: [Stars, planets and constellations in t…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/)