--- title: A reflective strip bounces car headlights straight back to the drive… — Light and shadows · tree and pragmatics description: A reflective strip bounces car headlights straight back to the driver, so a cyclist wearing one is seen from much further away. Who acts: reflective strip, cyclist. A sentence of the lesson «Light and shadows» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Light and shadows](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/) / 15 # Light and shadows, sentence 15 A reflective strip bounces car headlights straight back to the driver, so a cyclist wearing one is seen from much further away. **Who acts:** reflective strip, cyclist · **What happens:** bounce, wear, see · **To what, where:** car headlights, one, cyclist 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 (reflective strip, cyclist), 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:15 # text = A reflective strip bounces car headlights straight back to the driver, so a cyclist wearing one is seen from much further away. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 reflective reflective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 strip strip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 bounces bounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 headlights headlight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 straight straight ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cyclist cyclist NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 acl _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 much much ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 22 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 23 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl 24 . . 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 | **bounce** | present | a reflective strip | car headlights | | | | to the driver *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent headlight=Theme to driver=Result | | 2 | **wear** | gerund | a cyclist *not said here* | one | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source | | 3 | **see** | present · passive | | a cyclist | | | | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | 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:15`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/14/) - next →: [Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/)