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title: A telescope is above all a light bucket: its main job is to collect… — Telescopes and light · tree and pragmatics
description: A telescope is above all a light bucket: its main job is to collect as much light as possible, so faint things show up clearly. Who acts: telescope, main job, faint things. A sentence of the lesson «Telescopes and light» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Telescopes and light, sentence 0

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A telescope is above all a light bucket: its main job is to collect as much light as possible, so faint things show up clearly.

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**Who acts:** telescope, main job, faint things · **What happens:** be, show up, job · **To what, where:** light bucket

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Telescopes and light» 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 (telescope, main job, faint things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:027-telescopes-and-light.lesson:0
# text = A telescope is above all a light bucket: its main job is to collect as much light as possible, so faint things show up clearly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 027-telescopes-and-light.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a telescope |  |  | all light bucket |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | telescope's main job |  |  |  |  | collect *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **show up** | present | faint things |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **job** |  | telescope |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:027-telescopes-and-light.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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