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title: The Sun's light is basically white; our air scatters blue light, so… — Earth from space · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sun's light is basically white; our air scatters blue light, so the Sun looks yellowish, and red at sunset; from space it looks white. Who acts: light, air, Sun. A sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Earth from space, sentence 12

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The Sun's light is basically white; our air scatters blue light, so the Sun looks yellowish, and red at sunset; from space it looks white.

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**Who acts:** light, air, Sun · **What happens:** be, scatter, look, light · **To what, where:** blue light

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» of the myths 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 (light, air, Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:013-earth-from-space.lesson:12
# text = The Sun's light is basically white; our air scatters blue light, so the Sun looks yellowish, and red at sunset; from space it looks white.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 013-earth-from-space.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	basically	basically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	scatters	scatter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	yellowish	yellowish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Sun's light |  |  |  |  | basically, white *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **scatter** | present | our air | blue light |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present | the Sun |  |  |  |  | yellowish *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **look** | present | Sun |  |  |  |  | from space; white *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from space=Theme |
| 5 | **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:myths:013-earth-from-space.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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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