Light, shadows and colours, sentence 15
A mirror reflects light in a neat way, so it shows a clear image.
Who acts: mirror, Light · What happens: reflect, show · To what, where: light, neat way, clear image
This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, shadows and colours» 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 (mirror, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mirror | det |
| 2 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reflects | nsubj |
| 3 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reflects | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reflects | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shows | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 shows | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shows | nsubj |
| 12 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reflects | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 image | det |
| 14 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 image | amod |
| 15 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shows | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reflects | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | present | a mirror | light | a neat way | tree rules | |||
| 2 | show | present | Light | a clear image | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent image=Recipient |
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:053-light.lesson:15.
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): no change. 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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