Light and shadows, sentence 11

Starlight takes years, even thousands of years, to reach us, so we see each star as it was when its light set off.

Who acts: Starlight, we, light · What happens: take, reach, see, set off, light · To what, where: us, star · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Starlight, we, 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	Starlight	starlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 takes	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thousands	punct
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 thousands	advmod
6	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 years	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thousands	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reach	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 reach	mark
11	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 takes	advcl
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 reach	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 see	advmod
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	parataxis
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 star	det
18	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 was	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 was	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 see	advcl
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 set	advmod
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 light	nmod:poss
24	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 set	nsubj
25	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 see	ccomp
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 set	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 takes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	take	present	Starlight		year	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	reach	to-infinitive	Starlight not said here	us		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme
3	see	present	we	each star		tree rules
4	set off	past	Starlight's light			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	light		Starlight			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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:11.

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 ×3, 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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