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title: Fresh snow reflects up to about 80% of the sun's UV light, even on c… — Posture and eyes for sporty kids · tree and pragmatics
description: Fresh snow reflects up to about 80% of the sun's UV light, even on cloudy days, and UV can burn the surface of the eye, called snow blindness. Who acts: Fresh snow, UV, surface, sun. A sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Posture and eyes for sporty kids, sentence 12

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Fresh snow reflects up to about 80% of the sun's UV light, even on cloudy days, and UV can burn the surface of the eye, called snow blindness.

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**Who acts:** Fresh snow, UV, surface, sun · **What happens:** reflect up, burn, call, light · **To what, where:** surface, snow blindness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» of the medicine 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 (Fresh snow, UV, surface, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:12
# text = Fresh snow reflects up to about 80% of the sun's UV light, even on cloudy days, and UV can burn the surface of the eye, called snow blindness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.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
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reflects	reflect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	UV	ultra-violet	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	UV	ultra-violet	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
32	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	blindness	blindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **reflect up** | present | Fresh snow |  |  |  | day |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **burn** | can | UV | the surface of the eye |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent surface=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle | the surface of the eye *not said here* | snow blindness |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **light** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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**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:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:12`.

**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. **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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