--- title: A laser makes a narrow beam of light of one colour that hardly sprea… — Lenses and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: A laser makes a narrow beam of light of one colour that hardly spreads, and it must never be shone into anyone's eyes or at planes. Who acts: laser, one colour. A sentence of the lesson «Lenses and eyes» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/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/) / [Lenses and eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/) / 15 # Lenses and eyes, sentence 15 A laser makes a narrow beam of light of one colour that hardly spreads, and it must never be shone into anyone's eyes or at planes. **Who acts:** laser, one colour · **What happens:** make, spread, not shine, beam, light · **To what, where:** narrow beam, laser, eyes, light, one colour This is a sentence of the lesson «Lenses and eyes» 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 (laser, one colour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:022-lenses-and-eyes.lesson:15 # text = A laser makes a narrow beam of light of one colour that hardly spreads, and it must never be shone into anyone's eyes or at planes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 022-lenses-and-eyes.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 2 det _ _ 2 laser laser NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 beam beam NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj:pass 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 planes plane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | a laser | a narrow beam of light of one colour | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beam=Product | | 2 | **spread** | present | one colour | | | | | hardly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **shine** | must · passive | | laser | | anyone's eyes or planes | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **beam** | | | light of one colour | | | | | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **light** | | | one colour | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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:022-lenses-and-eyes.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): 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: [Lenses and eyes, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/14/) - next →: [Lenses and eyes, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/22-lenses-and-eyes/)