--- title: So when you look at a star you see old light, like getting a postcar… — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics description: So when you look at a star you see old light, like getting a postcard posted long ago: you see the star as it was, not as it is now. Who acts: you, postcard, light. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, postcard, light), 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:3 # text = So when you look at a star you see old light, like getting a postcard posted long ago: 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): R5-strong ×2 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 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 4 parataxis _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 like like SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 postcard postcard NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 posted post VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 xcomp _ _ 18 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 ago ago ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:mark 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nsubj 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 33 now now ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | old light | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | | 3 | **get** | gerund | | a postcard | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **post** | participle | a postcard *not said here* | | | | | ago *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **see** | present | you | the star | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **is** | past | light | | | | now | be *property* | tree rules | 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:3`. **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. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/2/) - next →: [Distances and light years, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/)