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title: Good photos come more from knowing light and angles than from an exp… — Photography and phone cameras · tree and pragmatics
description: Good photos come more from knowing light and angles than from an expensive phone: move closer instead of zooming, put the light on people's faces, crouch to a child's or a pet's eye level, and try the rule of thirds instead of always aiming at the middle. Who acts: Good photos, thirds. A sentence of
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# Photography and phone cameras, sentence 2

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Good photos come more from knowing light and angles than from an expensive phone: move closer instead of zooming, put the light on people's faces, crouch to a child's or a pet's eye level, and try the rule of thirds instead of always aiming at the middle.

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**Who acts:** Good photos, thirds · **What happens:** come, move, zoom, put, crouch, try · **To what, where:** knowing light, light, faces, rule, middle

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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 (Good photos, thirds), 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:2
# text = Good photos come more from knowing light and angles than from an expensive phone: move closer instead of zooming, put the light on people's faces, crouch to a child's or a pet's eye level, and try the rule of thirds instead of always aiming at the middle.
# 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): no change
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	knowing	knowing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	angles	angle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	zooming	zoom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	crouch	crouch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	thirds	third	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
48	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	51	mark	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	fixed	_	_
50	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	51	advmod	_	_
51	aiming	aim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	.	.	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 | **come** | present | Good photos |  |  | knowing light and angles than a expensive phone |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from light=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **move** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **zoom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive |  | the light |  | people's faces |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme on face=Destination |
| 5 | **crouch** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to a child's pet eye level | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **try** | infinitive |  | the rule of thirds |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Eventuality |
| 7 | **aim** | gerund |  |  |  | the middle |  | always *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 8 | **rule** |  | thirds |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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): 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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