Light and shadows, sentence 12

White things reflect most light and dark things absorb it and turn it into heat, so a white T-shirt keeps you cooler in the Sun.

Who acts: White things, dark things, white T shirt · What happens: reflect, absorb, turn, keep · To what, where: most light, Light, heat, you, Sun.

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 (White things, dark things, white T shirt), 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	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reflect	nsubj
3	reflect	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 light	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reflect	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 absorb	cc
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 absorb	nsubj
9	absorb	absorb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reflect	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 absorb	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turn	cc
12	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 absorb	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turn	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 heat	case
15	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turn	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keeps	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	23 keeps	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 shirt	det
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shirt	amod
20	T	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shirt	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 T	punct
22	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keeps	nsubj
23	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reflect	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 keeps	obj
25	cooler	cooler	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 keeps	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 Sun.	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Sun.	det
28	Sun.	Sun	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	23 keeps	obl

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reflect	present	White things	most light			tree rules
2	absorb	present	dark things	Light			vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal it=Theme
3	turn	present	dark things not said here	Light	heat		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into heat=Trajectory
4	keep	present	a white T shirt	you	the Sun.	cooler property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in sun=Location

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:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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