Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★, sentence 9

Sunlight takes about eight minutes to reach the Earth, so if the Sun went out we would still see it shining for about eight minutes.

Who acts: Sunlight, Sun, we · What happens: take, reach, go out, see, shine · To what, where: Earth, Sun

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 (Sunlight, Sun, we), 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	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 eight	advmod
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 takes	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 reach	mark
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 takes	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reach	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sun	det
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	advcl
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 takes	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 see	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 minutes	case
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 eight	advmod
25	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 minutes	nummod
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 shining	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 takes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Sunlight		minute		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	reach	to-infinitive	Sunlight not said here	the Earth			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
3	go out	past	the Sun			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	would	we	Sun	still		tree rules
5	shine	gerund	Sun not said here		minute		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:9.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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