--- title: A camera is a box that catches light: the lens gathers it and the se… — Photography and phone cameras · tree and pragmatics description: A camera is a box that catches light: the lens gathers it and the sensor (or, in old cameras, the film) records it, so a photo is really a picture of light. Who acts: camera, box, lens, sensor. A sentence of the lesson «Photography and phone cameras» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Photography and phone cameras](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/) / 0 # Photography and phone cameras, sentence 0 A camera is a box that catches light: the lens gathers it and the sensor (or, in old cameras, the film) records it, so a photo is really a picture of light. **Who acts:** camera, box, lens, sensor, photo · **What happens:** be, catch, gather, record · **To what, where:** box, light, camera, picture This is a sentence of the lesson «Photography and phone cameras» of the arts 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 (camera, box, lens, sensor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:020-photography-and-phone-cameras.lesson:0 # text = A camera is a box that catches light: the lens gathers it and the sensor (or, in old cameras, the film) records it, so a photo is really a picture of light. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 020-photography-and-phone-cameras.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lens lens NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 gathers gather VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sensor sensor NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 cameras camera NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 records record VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 really really ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a camera | a box | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **catch** | present | a box | light | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 3 | **gather** | present | the lens | light | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **record** | present | the sensor or the film | camera | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | a photo | a picture | | | | of light | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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