Light, shadows and colours, sentence 20
Transparent materials let light through, translucent ones let some through, and opaque ones block it.
Who acts: Transparent materials, translucent ones, opaque ones · What happens: let, block · To what, where: light, some
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 (Transparent materials, translucent ones, opaque ones), 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 | Transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 materials | amod |
| 2 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | conj |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 7 | translucent | translucent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | amod |
| 8 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADV | _ | 9 let | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 block | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 block | cc |
| 14 | opaque | opaque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ones | amod |
| 15 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 block | nsubj |
| 16 | block | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 block | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | Transparent materials | light | through property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | present | translucent ones | some | through property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | |||
| 3 | block | present | opaque ones | Light | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=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:20.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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