--- title: Light from the Moon takes about 1.3 seconds to reach us, and radio s… — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics description: Light from the Moon takes about 1.3 seconds to reach us, and radio signals travel just as fast, so a call to astronauts on the Moon has a short delay, and sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds. Who acts: Light, radio signals, call, sunlight. 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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 (Light, radio signals, call, 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:6 # text = Light from the Moon takes about 1.3 seconds to reach us, and radio signals travel just as fast, so a call to astronauts on the Moon has a short delay, and sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 1.3 1.3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 8 nummod _ _ 8 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 11 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 17 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 delay delay NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 37 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nmod:unmarked 40 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **take** | present | Light from the Moon | | | | second | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Light from the Moon *not said here* | us | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 3 | **travel** | present | radio signals | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | a call to astronauts on the Moon | a short delay | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delay=Patient | | 5 | **take** | present | sunlight | | | | minute; second | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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 ×3, 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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/3/) - next →: [Distances and light years, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/)