Light, shadows and colours, sentence 17
An object looks the colour of the light it reflects; it absorbs the other colours.
Who acts: object, Light · What happens: look, reflect, absorb · To what, where: colour, light, other colours
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 (object, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 colour | det |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 light | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 light | det |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 colour | nmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reflects | nsubj |
| 10 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 light | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 absorbs | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 absorbs | nsubj |
| 13 | absorbs | absorb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 looks | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 colours | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 colours | amod |
| 16 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 absorbs | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | a object | the colour of the light | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme colour=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | reflect | present | Light | the light not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | absorb | present | Light | the other colours | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal colour=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:053-light.lesson:17.
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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