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title: Our eyes adjust to bright and dark at the same time, but cameras str… — Photography and phone cameras · tree and pragmatics
description: Our eyes adjust to bright and dark at the same time, but cameras struggle, which is why a glowing sunset can come out dark and dull, and why people with the sun behind them come out as black shapes called silhouettes. Who acts: eyes, cameras, glowing sunset, people. A sentence of the lesson «Photogr
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# Photography and phone cameras, sentence 1

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Our eyes adjust to bright and dark at the same time, but cameras struggle, which is why a glowing sunset can come out dark and dull, and why people with the sun behind them come out as black shapes called silhouettes.

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**Who acts:** eyes, cameras, glowing sunset, people, black shapes · **What happens:** adjust, struggle, be, glow, come out, call · **To what, where:** bright, silhouettes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (eyes, cameras, glowing sunset, people), 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:1
# text = Our eyes adjust to bright and dark at the same time, but cameras struggle, which is why a glowing sunset can come out dark and dull, and why people with the sun behind them come out as black shapes called silhouettes.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	adjust	adjust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	struggle	struggle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl:relcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
31	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
39	out	out	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
43	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
44	silhouettes	silhouette	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	xcomp	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adjust** | present | Our eyes |  |  |  | time | to bright *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent to bright=Goal |
| 2 | **struggle** | present | cameras |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come out** | can | a glowing sunset |  |  |  |  | dark, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **come out** | present | people with the sun behind eyes |  |  |  |  | as black shapes; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **call** | participle | black shapes *not said here* | silhouettes |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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