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title: Sunlight carries invisible ultraviolet rays, or UV; they cannot be f… — Sun safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Sunlight carries invisible ultraviolet rays, or UV; they cannot be felt as heat, but they burn the skin and over many years can cause skin cancer. Who acts: Sunlight, rays. A sentence of the lesson «Sun safety» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Sun safety, sentence 0

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Sunlight carries invisible ultraviolet rays, or UV; they cannot be felt as heat, but they burn the skin and over many years can cause skin cancer.

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**Who acts:** Sunlight, rays · **What happens:** carry, not feel, burn, cause · **To what, where:** invisible ultraviolet rays, rays, skin, skin cancer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sun safety» of the everyday 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 (Sunlight, rays), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:046-sun-safety.lesson:0
# text = Sunlight carries invisible ultraviolet rays, or UV; they cannot be felt as heat, but they burn the skin and over many years can cause skin cancer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 046-sun-safety.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	UV	ultra-violet	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	over	over	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
29	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	cancer	cancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **carry** | present | Sunlight | invisible ultraviolet rays or UV |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **feel** | can · passive |  | rays *= ray* |  |  |  | as heat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | present | rays *= ray* | the skin |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 4 | **cause** | can | rays *= ray* *not said here* | skin cancer |  |  | year |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cancer=Patient |

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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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**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:everyday:046-sun-safety.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 ×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/).

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