--- title: Light things bounce most light away and dark things soak it up and t… — Light and shadows · tree and pragmatics description: Light things bounce most light away and dark things soak it up and turn it into warmth, and the colour you see is the light a thing bounces back to you. Who acts: Light things, dark things, you, colour. A sentence of the lesson «Light and shadows» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Light and shadows, sentence 4 Light things bounce most light away and dark things soak it up and turn it into warmth, and the colour you see is the light a thing bounces back to you. **Who acts:** Light things, dark things, you, colour, thing · **What happens:** bounce away, soak up, turn, see, be, bounce back · **To what, where:** most light, Light, warmth, colour, you 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 (Light things, dark things, you, colour), 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:4 # text = Light things bounce most light away and dark things soak it up and turn it into warmth, and the colour you see is the light a thing bounces back to you. # 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): no change 1 Light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bounce bounce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 soak soak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 bounces bounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bounce away** | present | Light things | most light | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Agent | | 2 | **soak up** | present | dark things | Light | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | dark things *not said here* | Light | | warmth | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into warmth=Trajectory | | 4 | **see** | present | you | the colour *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | the colour | the light | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **bounce back** | present | a thing | the light *not said here* | you | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent light=Theme to you=Result | 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:4`. **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): no change. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/3/) - next →: [Light and shadows, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/)