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title: Air blurs and blocks some light, so big telescopes sit on high dry m… — Telescopes and light · tree and pragmatics
description: Air blurs and blocks some light, so big telescopes sit on high dry mountains, and some telescopes go up into space. Who acts: Air, big telescopes, telescopes. A sentence of the lesson «Telescopes and light» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Telescopes and light, sentence 3

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Air blurs and blocks some light, so big telescopes sit on high dry mountains, and some telescopes go up into space.

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**Who acts:** Air, big telescopes, telescopes · **What happens:** blur, block, sit, go up · **To what, where:** light, high dry mountains, space

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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 (Air, big telescopes, telescopes), 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:3
# text = Air blurs and blocks some light, so big telescopes sit on high dry mountains, and some telescopes go up into space.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blurs	blur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	blocks	block	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	telescopes	telescope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	telescopes	telescope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **blur** | present | Air | some light |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 2 | **block** | present | Air *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **sit** | present | big telescopes |  |  | high dry mountains |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mountain=Location |
| 4 | **go up** | present | some telescopes |  |  | space |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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: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): R7-rel-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/).

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