--- title: Light travels in straight lines and cannot bend round you, so your b… — Light and shadows · tree and pragmatics description: Light travels in straight lines and cannot bend round you, so your body leaves a shadow where it blocks the sunlight. Who acts: Light, body. A sentence of the lesson «Light and shadows» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Light and shadows, sentence 5 Light travels in straight lines and cannot bend round you, so your body leaves a shadow where it blocks the sunlight. **Who acts:** Light, body · **What happens:** travel, not bend, leave, block · **To what, where:** straight lines, shadow, sunlight 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, body), 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:5 # text = Light travels in straight lines and cannot bend round you, so your body leaves a shadow where it blocks the sunlight. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 bend bend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 10 round round ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 blocks block VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | present | Light | | | straight lines | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory | | 2 | **not** **bend** | can | Light *not said here* | | | | | round you | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round you=Location | | 3 | **leave** | present | your body | a shadow | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme | | 4 | **block** | present | Light | the sunlight | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sunlight=Theme | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/4/) - next →: [Light and shadows, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/20-light-and-shadows/)