Distances and light years, sentence 11

When you look at a star, you see light that left it long ago, so you see the star as it was, not as it is now.

Who acts: you, light, star · What happens: look, see, leave, be, not be · To what, where: light, star

This is a sentence of the lesson «Distances and light years» of the space 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 (you, light, star), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 look	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 see	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 star	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
9	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 left	nsubj
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 light	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	obj
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 ago	advmod
15	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 left	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 see	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 see	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 star	det
21	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 was	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 was	nsubj
24	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 see	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 is	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 is	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 is	nsubj
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 was	parataxis
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 is	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	you			at a star	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme
2	see	present	you	light			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	leave	past	light	light		ago property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	see	present	you	the star			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus
5	be	past	star				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not be	present	star		now		vn exist-47.1 «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:space:022-distances-and-light-years.lesson:11.

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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

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