--- title: A red apple looks red because it bounces red light and soaks up the… — Light and shadows · tree and pragmatics description: A red apple looks red because it bounces red light and soaks up the other colours; under a blue lamp it looks almost black. Who acts: red apple, apple, 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 (red apple, apple, Light), 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:14 # text = A red apple looks red because it bounces red light and soaks up the other colours; under a blue lamp it looks almost black. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 bounces bounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 soaks soak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 under under ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 almost almost ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | a red apple | | | | | red *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **bounce** | present | apple | red light | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location light=Theme | | 3 | **soak up** | present | apple *not said here* | the other colours | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Source | | 4 | **look** | present | Light | a blue lamp *not said here* | | | | black *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lamp=Attribute | 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:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [Light and shadows, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/13/) - next →: [Light and shadows, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/)