--- title: White things reflect most light and dark things absorb it and turn i… — Light and shadows · tree and pragmatics description: White things reflect most light and dark things absorb it and turn it into heat, so a white T-shirt keeps you cooler in the Sun. Who acts: White things, dark things, white T shirt. 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This is a sentence of the lesson «Light and shadows» of the physics 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 (White things, dark things, white T shirt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:020-light-and-shadows.lesson:12 # text = White things reflect most light and dark things absorb it and turn it into heat, so a white T-shirt keeps you cooler in the Sun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 020-light-and-shadows.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 reflect reflect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 absorb absorb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 17 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 T t NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 cooler cooler ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 xcomp _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Sun. Sun PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reflect** | present | White things | most light | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **absorb** | present | dark things | Light | | | | | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal it=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | dark things *not said here* | Light | | heat | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into heat=Trajectory | | 4 | **keep** | present | a white T shirt | you | | the Sun. | | cooler *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in sun=Location | 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:physics:020-light-and-shadows.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [Light and shadows, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/11/) - next →: [Light and shadows, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/)