Distances and light years, sentence 3

So when you look at a star you see old light, like getting a postcard posted long ago: you see the star as it was, not as it is now.

Who acts: you, postcard, light · What happens: look, see, get, post, not be · To what, where: old light, postcard, star · Speech: someone speaks here

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, postcard, light), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 look	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	_	4 look	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 star	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 star	det
7	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
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	4 look	parataxis
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 light	amod
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 getting	punct
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 getting	mark
14	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 look	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 postcard	det
16	postcard	postcard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 getting	obj
17	posted	post	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 getting	xcomp
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 ago	advmod
19	ago	ago	ADV	_	17 posted	advmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 star	det
24	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 was	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 was	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 is	cop
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 is	punct
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 is	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 is	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 is	nsubj
32	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 see	ccomp
33	now	now	ADV	_	32 is	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	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	old light			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	get	gerund		a postcard			tree rules
4	post	participle	a postcard not said here			ago property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	see	present	you	the star			tree rules
6	not is	past	light		now	be property	tree rules

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:3.

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): R5-strong ×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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