Light and shadows, sentence 10

Light goes about 300,000 kilometres every second, and sunlight takes about eight minutes to reach the Earth.

Who acts: Light, sunlight · What happens: go about, take, reach · To what, where: 300,000 kilometres, Earth

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, sunlight), 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 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 300,000	advmod
4	300,000	300,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 kilometres	nummod
5	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 goes	obl:unmarked
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 second	det
7	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 takes	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 takes	cc
10	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	nsubj
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 eight	advmod
13	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 minutes	nummod
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 takes	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 reach	mark
16	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 takes	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Earth	det
18	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 reach	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go about	present	Light	300,000 kilometres	second	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	present	sunlight		minute	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	reach	to-infinitive	sunlight not said here	the Earth		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent earth=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:10.

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): no change. 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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