Light and shadows, sentence 5
Light travels in straight lines and cannot bend round you, so your body leaves a shadow where it blocks the sunlight.
Who acts: Light, body · What happens: travel, not bend, leave, block · To what, where: straight lines, shadow, sunlight
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, body), 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 travels | nsubj |
| 2 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 lines | case |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lines | amod |
| 5 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travels | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bend | cc |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bend | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 bend | advmod |
| 9 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 travels | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bend | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leaves | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 leaves | advmod |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaves | nsubj |
| 16 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bend | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shadow | det |
| 18 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaves | obj |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 blocks | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 blocks | nsubj |
| 21 | blocks | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 shadow | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sunlight | det |
| 23 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blocks | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | Light | straight lines | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not bend | can | Light not said here | round you | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round you=Location | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | your body | a shadow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | block | present | Light | the sunlight | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sunlight=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:5.
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): R6-punct-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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