Light, shadows and colours, sentence 3
When something opaque blocks the light, a dark area with no light forms behind it — a shadow.
Who acts: something, dark area · What happens: block, form · To what, where: light
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 (something, dark area), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 blocks | mark |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 blocks | nsubj |
| 3 | opaque | opaque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | blocks | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 forms | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blocks | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forms | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 area | det |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 area | amod |
| 10 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forms | nsubj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 light | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 light | det |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 area | nmod |
| 14 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forms | obl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 forms | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shadow | det |
| 19 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 it | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 forms | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | block | present | something | the light | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | present | a dark area with no light | Light | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind it=Location |
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:3.
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.
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