Photography and phone cameras, sentence 0

A camera is a box that catches light: the lens gathers it and the sensor (or, in old cameras, the film) records it, so a photo is really a picture of light.

Who acts: camera, box, lens, sensor, photo · What happens: be, catch, gather, record · To what, where: box, light, camera, picture

This is a sentence of the lesson «Photography and phone cameras» of the arts 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 (camera, box, lens, sensor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 camera	det
2	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 box	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 catches	nsubj
7	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 box	acl:relcl
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catches	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 gathers	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lens	det
11	lens	lens	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gathers	nsubj
12	gathers	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 box	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gathers	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 records	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sensor	det
16	sensor	sensor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 records	nsubj
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 film	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 film	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 or	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 cameras	case
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cameras	amod
22	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 film	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 film	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 film	det
25	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sensor	conj
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 film	punct
27	records	record	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gathers	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 records	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 picture	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	36 picture	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 photo	det
32	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 picture	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 picture	cop
34	really	really	ADV	_	36 picture	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 picture	det
36	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	advcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 light	case
38	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 picture	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 box	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a camera	a box		tree rules
2	catch	present	a box	light		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	gather	present	the lens	light		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	record	present	the sensor or the film	camera		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	is a	present	a photo	a picture	of light	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, 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:arts:020-photography-and-phone-cameras.lesson:0.

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): R6-punct-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.

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