--- title: Light is fast but not instant: sunlight that warms your face on the… — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics description: Light is fast but not instant: sunlight that warms your face on the beach left the Sun about 8 minutes 20 seconds ago. Who acts: Light, sunlight. 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 cla --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Distances and light years, sentence 2 Light is fast but not instant: sunlight that warms your face on the beach left the Sun about 8 minutes 20 seconds ago. **Who acts:** Light, sunlight · **What happens:** be, not be, warm, leave · **To what, where:** face, beach, Sun 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 (Light, sunlight), 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:2 # text = Light is fast but not instant: sunlight that warms your face on the beach left the Sun about 8 minutes 20 seconds ago. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 instant instant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 8 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 ago ago ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is** | present | Light | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **be** | | Light *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **warm** | present | sunlight | your face | | the beach | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 4 | **leave** | past | sunlight | the Sun | | | | ago *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=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:2`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Distances and light years, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/1/) - next →: [Distances and light years, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/)