Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★, sentence 8

A red apple under a blue lamp looks almost black, and a white T-shirt under a red lamp looks red, because white bounces back every colour that falls on it.

Who acts: red apple, white T shirt, white, colour · What happens: look, bounce back, fall · To what, where: colour, shirt

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» 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, white T shirt, white, 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	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	8 looks	nsubj
4	under	under	ADP	_	7 lamp	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lamp	det
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lamp	amod
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 apple	nmod
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 black	advmod
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looks	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looks	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looks	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 shirt	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shirt	amod
15	T	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shirt	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 T	punct
17	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looks	nsubj
18	under	under	ADP	_	21 lamp	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lamp	det
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lamp	amod
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shirt	nmod
22	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looks	conj
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 looks	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 colour	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 bounces	mark
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bounces	nsubj
27	bounces	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 looks	advcl
28	back	back	ADV	_	30 colour	advmod
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 colour	det
30	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bounces	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 falls	nsubj
32	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 colour	acl:relcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 falls	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	a red apple under a blue lamp			black property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	look	present	a white T shirt under a red lamp			red property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	bounce back	present	white	every colour			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Agent
4	fall	present	every colour		shirt		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=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:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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