Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy, sentence 5
Because light travels in straight lines, a shadow points away from the Sun.
Who acts: light, shadow · What happens: travel, point away · To what, where: straight lines, Sun.
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy» 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 (light, shadow), 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 3 travels | mark |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travels | nsubj |
| 3 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 points | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 lines | case |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lines | amod |
| 6 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 travels | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 points | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shadow | det |
| 9 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 points | nsubj |
| 10 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 points | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Sun. | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sun. | det |
| 14 | Sun. | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 points | obl |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | light | straight lines | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | point away | present | a shadow | the Sun. | away property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:060-reasoning-energy-technology.lesson:5.
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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