Light and shadows, sentence 0
Light comes from things that shine, like the Sun, a lamp or a fire, and it travels in straight lines, faster than anything else.
Who acts: Light, things · What happens: come, shine, travel · To what, where: things, straight lines
This is a sentence of the lesson «Light and shadows» of the physics 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 (Light, things), 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 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 things | case |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 shine | nsubj |
| 6 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 things | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sun | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 Sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 things | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lamp | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lamp | det |
| 13 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Sun | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 fire | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lamp | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 travels | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 travels | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 travels | nsubj |
| 20 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 lines | case |
| 22 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lines | amod |
| 23 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 travels | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 faster | punct |
| 25 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 travels | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 anything | case |
| 27 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 faster | obl |
| 28 | else | else | ADV | _ | 27 anything | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Light | things like the Sun and a lamp or a fire | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from thing=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | shine | present | things like the Sun and a lamp or a fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel | present | Light | straight lines | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory |
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:physics:020-light-and-shadows.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): R5-strong ×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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