--- title: When you look at a far star, you see light that left it long ago, so… — The Sun as a star and the stars · tree and pragmatics description: When you look at a far star, you see light that left it long ago, so you see the star as it was when that light set off. Who acts: you, 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, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:005-the-sun-and-the-stars.lesson:10 # text = When you look at a far star, you see light that left it long ago, so you see the star as it was when that light set off. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 005-the-sun-and-the-stars.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 ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 7 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 16 ago ago ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:mark 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nsubj 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:cop 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 27 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 30 off off ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 far star | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present | you | light | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | | 3 | **leave** | past | light | star | | | | ago *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **see** | present | you | the star | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **set off** | past | that light | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:world:005-the-sun-and-the-stars.lesson:10`. **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 ×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: [The Sun as a star and the stars, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/9/) - next →: [The Sun as a star and the stars, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/)