Light and shadows, sentence 4
Light things bounce most light away and dark things soak it up and turn it into warmth, and the colour you see is the light a thing bounces back to you.
Who acts: Light things, dark things, you, colour, thing · What happens: bounce away, soak up, turn, see, be, bounce back · To what, where: most light, Light, warmth, colour, you
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 things, dark things, you, colour), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bounce | nsubj |
| 3 | bounce | bounce | 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 bounce | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 bounce | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 soak | cc |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 soak | nsubj |
| 10 | soak | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bounce | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 soak | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 soak | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turn | cc |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 soak | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turn | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 warmth | case |
| 17 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 light | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 light | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 colour | det |
| 21 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 light | nsubj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 colour | acl:relcl |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 light | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 light | det |
| 26 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bounce | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 thing | det |
| 28 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bounces | nsubj |
| 29 | bounces | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 light | acl:relcl |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 bounces | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 bounces | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bounce | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bounce away | present | Light things | most light | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Agent | |||
| 2 | soak up | present | dark things | Light | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | dark things not said here | Light | warmth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into warmth=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | see | present | you | the colour not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the colour | the light | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bounce back | present | a thing | the light not said here | you | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent light=Theme to you=Result |
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:4.
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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