--- title: When you look at a star, you see light that left it long ago, so you… — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics description: When you look at a star, you see light that left it long ago, so you see the star as it was, not as it is now. Who acts: you, light, star. A sentence of the lesson «Distances and light years» of the space 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/space/22-distances-and-light-years/11/) [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/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [Distances and light years](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/) / 11 # Distances and light years, sentence 11 When you look at a star, you see light that left it long ago, so you see the star as it was, not as it is now. **Who acts:** you, light, star · **What happens:** look, see, leave, be, not be · **To what, where:** light, star This is a sentence of the lesson «Distances and light years» of the space 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 (you, light, star), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:022-distances-and-light-years.lesson:11 # text = When you look at a star, you see light that left it long ago, so you see the star as it was, not as it is now. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 022-distances-and-light-years.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:ccomp 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 30 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **look** | present | you | | | | | at a star | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present | you | light | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | | 3 | **leave** | past | light | light | | | | ago *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **see** | present | you | the star | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus | | 5 | **be** | past | star | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **be** | present | star | | | | now | | vn exist-47.1 «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:space:022-distances-and-light-years.lesson:11`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Distances and light years, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/10/) - next →: [Distances and light years, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/)