--- title: Backlighting means bright light is behind the subject, so the camera… — Photography and phone cameras · tree and pragmatics description: Backlighting means bright light is behind the subject, so the camera makes the people dark; turning so the light is on their faces fixes it. Who acts: Backlighting, bright light, camera, light. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Backlighting, bright light, camera, light), 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:7 # text = Backlighting means bright light is behind the subject, so the camera makes the people dark; turning so the light is on their faces fixes it. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Backlighting backlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 behind behind ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 19 so so SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 fixes fix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Backlighting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | bright light | | | the subject | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | the camera | the people | | | | dark *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | | 4 | **turn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **be** | present | the light | | | people's faces | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location | | 6 | **fix** | present | turning | light | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:arts:020-photography-and-phone-cameras.lesson:7`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Photography and phone cameras, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/6/) - next →: [Photography and phone cameras, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/)