Light and shadows, sentence 14

A red apple looks red because it bounces red light and soaks up the other colours; under a blue lamp it looks almost black.

Who acts: red apple, apple, Light · What happens: look, bounce, soak up · To what, where: red light, other colours, blue lamp

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 (red apple, apple, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 apple	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 apple	amod
3	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looks	xcomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 bounces	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bounces	nsubj
8	bounces	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looks	advcl
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 light	amod
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bounces	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 soaks	cc
12	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bounces	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 soaks	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 colours	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 colours	amod
16	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 soaks	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lamp	punct
18	under	under	ADP	_	21 lamp	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lamp	det
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lamp	amod
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 soaks	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looks	nsubj
23	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lamp	acl:relcl
24	almost	almost	ADV	_	25 black	advmod
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looks	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	a red apple		red property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	bounce	present	apple	red light		vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location light=Theme
3	soak up	present	apple not said here	the other colours		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Source
4	look	present	Light	a blue lamp not said here	black property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lamp=Attribute

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:14.

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. 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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