--- title: The biggest trap is the light year: it is a distance, how far light… — Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: The biggest trap is the light year: it is a distance, how far light goes in a year, so light from a star 4 light years away left it 4 years ago, and you see the star as it was then, not as it is now. Who acts: biggest trap, trap, light, you. 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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 (biggest trap, trap, light, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.lesson:1 # text = The biggest trap is the light year: it is a distance, how far light goes in a year, so light from a star 4 light years away left it 4 years ago, and you see the star as it was then, not as it is now. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 16 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 flat _ _ 28 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nsubj 30 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 ago ago ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:mark 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:nsubj 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 47 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 48 as as SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 51 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 parataxis _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the biggest trap | the light year | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | trap | a distance | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | present | light | | | | year | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | past | light from a star | trap | | | | ago, away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **see** | present | you | the star | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | then *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | | | | | | now *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:032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.lesson:1`. **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 ×5, 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: stars, light and space histo…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/0/) - next →: [Olympiad: stars, light and space histo…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/)