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title: A red apple under a blue lamp looks almost black, and a white T-shir… — Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: A red apple under a blue lamp looks almost black, and a white T-shirt under a red lamp looks red, because white bounces back every colour that falls on it. Who acts: red apple, white T shirt, white, colour. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» of the p
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# Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★, sentence 8

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A red apple under a blue lamp looks almost black, and a white T-shirt under a red lamp looks red, because white bounces back every colour that falls on it.

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**Who acts:** red apple, white T shirt, white, colour · **What happens:** look, bounce back, fall · **To what, where:** colour, shirt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» 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 (red apple, white T shirt, white, colour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:8
# text = A red apple under a blue lamp looks almost black, and a white T-shirt under a red lamp looks red, because white bounces back every colour that falls on it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	T	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	bounces	bounce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **look** | present | a red apple under a blue lamp |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | present | a white T shirt under a red lamp |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bounce back** | present | white | every colour |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | present | every colour |  |  | shirt |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=Location |

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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:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/).

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