Photography and phone cameras, sentence 7

Backlighting means bright light is behind the subject, so the camera makes the people dark; turning so the light is on their faces fixes it.

Who acts: Backlighting, bright light, camera, light, turning · What happens: mean, be, make, turn, fix · To what, where: subject, people, faces, light · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Backlighting, bright light, camera, light), 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	Backlighting	backlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 light	amod
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 subject	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 subject	cop
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 subject	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 subject	det
8	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 makes	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 makes	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 camera	det
12	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 makes	nsubj
13	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 makes	obj
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 makes	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 turning	punct
18	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 fixes	csubj
19	so	so	SCONJ	_	22 is	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 light	det
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 is	nsubj
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 turning	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 faces	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 faces	nmod:poss
25	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 is	obl
26	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fixes	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Backlighting				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	bright light		the subject		tree rules
3	make	present	the camera	the people		dark property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
4	turn	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	be	present	the light		people's faces		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location
6	fix	present	turning	light			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:7.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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