Light and shadows, sentence 1

We see most things because some of that light bounces off them into our eyes; in a room with no light at all you see nothing, however long you wait.

Who acts: We, some, you · What happens: see, bounce off, wait · To what, where: most things, things, eyes, nothing, room

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 (We, some, you), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obj
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 bounces	mark
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 bounces	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 light	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 light	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 some	nmod
10	bounces	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	advcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bounces	obl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 eyes	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bounces	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 light	case
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 light	det
22	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 room	nmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 light	nmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
26	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	parataxis
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 see	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wait	punct
29	however	however	ADV	_	30 long	advmod
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 wait	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 wait	nsubj
32	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	We	most things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	bounce off	present	some	things = thing	our eyes		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into eye=Trajectory
3	see	present	you	nothing	a room with no light at all		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	wait	present	you			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:1.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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