Light, shadows and colours, sentence 18

A black object absorbs almost all light, and a white object reflects almost all of it.

Who acts: black object, white object · What happens: absorb, reflect · To what, where: light, all

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 (black object, white object), 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	3 object	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 object	amod
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 absorbs	nsubj
4	absorbs	absorb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 all	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 absorbs	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reflects	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 reflects	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 object	det
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 object	amod
12	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reflects	nsubj
13	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 absorbs	conj
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 all	advmod
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 reflects	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 all	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 absorbs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absorb	present	a black object	all light					vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal light=Theme
2	reflect	present	a white object	all					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:world:053-light.lesson:18.

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 ×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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