Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 0
A mirror reflects light like a ball bouncing off a wall: the light leaves the mirror at the same angle as it arrived.
Who acts: mirror, ball, light · What happens: reflect, bounce off, leave, arrive · To what, where: light, wall, mirror, same angle
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, 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 (mirror, ball, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mirror | det |
| 2 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reflects | nsubj |
| 3 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reflects | obj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 ball | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ball | det |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reflects | obl |
| 8 | bouncing | bounce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ball | acl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 bouncing | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bouncing | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaves | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 light | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | nsubj |
| 15 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reflects | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mirror | det |
| 17 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 angle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 angle | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 angle | amod |
| 21 | angle | angle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 arrived | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 arrived | nsubj |
| 24 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 leaves | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reflects | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | present | a mirror | light | like a ball | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bounce off | gerund | a ball not said here | a wall | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | the light | the mirror | the same angle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mirror=Theme at angle=Location | |||
| 4 | arrive | past | light | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.lesson:0.
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 ×2, 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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