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title: A low morning Sun stretches your shadow long across the playground,… — Light and shadows · tree and pragmatics
description: A low morning Sun stretches your shadow long across the playground, while the high Sun at midday shrinks it to a puddle at your feet. Who acts: low morning Sun, high Sun, your. A sentence of the lesson «Light and shadows» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Light and shadows, sentence 3

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A low morning Sun stretches your shadow long across the playground, while the high Sun at midday shrinks it to a puddle at your feet.

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**Who acts:** low morning Sun, high Sun, your · **What happens:** stretch, shrink, shadow · **To what, where:** shadow, playground

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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 (low morning Sun, high Sun, your), 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:3
# text = A low morning Sun stretches your shadow long across the playground, while the high Sun at midday shrinks it to a puddle at your feet.
# 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	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	puddle	puddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **stretch** | present | a low morning Sun | your shadow |  | the playground |  | long *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient |
| 2 | **shrink** | present | the high Sun at midday | shadow |  |  |  | to a puddle at your feet *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to puddle=Result |
| 3 | **shadow** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state 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:physics:020-light-and-shadows.lesson:3`.

**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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