--- title: Sunlight takes about eight minutes to reach the Earth, so if the Sun… — Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and ma… · tree and pragmatics description: Sunlight takes about eight minutes to reach the Earth, so if the Sun went out we would still see it shining for about eight minutes. Who acts: Sunlight, Sun, we. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets/9/) [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/) / [Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electric…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets/) / 9 # Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★, sentence 9 Sunlight takes about eight minutes to reach the Earth, so if the Sun went out we would still see it shining for about eight minutes. **Who acts:** Sunlight, Sun, we · **What happens:** take, reach, go out, see, shine · **To what, where:** Earth, Sun 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 (Sunlight, Sun, we), 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:9 # text = Sunlight takes about eight minutes to reach the Earth, so if the Sun went out we would still see it shining for about eight minutes. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 11 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 16 out out ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 still still ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | Sunlight | | | | minute | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Sunlight *not said here* | the Earth | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | | 3 | **go out** | past | the Sun | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** | would | we | Sun | | | still | | tree rules | | 5 | **shine** | gerund | Sun *not said here* | | | | minute | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:9`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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