Telescopes and light, sentence 19

Never look at the Sun through a telescope or binoculars: it can blind you in an instant.

Who acts: you, telescope · What happens: not look, blind · To what, where: you, instant

This is a sentence of the lesson «Telescopes and light» 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, telescope), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 look	advmod
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 Sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 telescope	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 telescope	det
8	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 binoculars	cc
10	binoculars	binocular	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 telescope	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 blind	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 blind	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 blind	aux
14	blind	blind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 look	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 blind	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 instant	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 instant	det
18	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blind	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	imperative	you not said here					through a telescope or binoculars; at the Sun	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme
2	blind	can	telescope	you		a instant			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:027-telescopes-and-light.lesson:19.

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 ×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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