The Sun as a star and the stars, sentence 10

When you look at a far star, you see light that left it long ago, so you see the star as it was when that light set off.

Who acts: you, light · What happens: look, see, leave, set off · To what, where: light, star · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Sun as a star and the stars» of the world 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), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 look	advmod
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	10 see	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 star	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 star	det
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 star	amod
7	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 left	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 light	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	obj
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 ago	advmod
16	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 left	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
20	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 star	det
22	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 was	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 was	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	advcl
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 set	advmod
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 light	det
28	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 set	nsubj
29	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	ccomp
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 set	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	you		at a far 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	star	ago property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	see	present	you	the star		tree rules
5	set off	past	that light			vn escape-51.1-1 «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:world:005-the-sun-and-the-stars.lesson:10.

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 ×3, 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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