--- title: Light, shadows and colours — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Light, shadows and colours», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Light comes from sources such as the Sun, a lamp or a fire. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Light, shadows and colours # Light, shadows and colours Lesson 53 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/53-light/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/0/) — Light comes from sources such as the Sun, a lamp or a fire. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/1/) — The Moon is not a source: it only reflects sunlight. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/2/) — Light travels in straight lines. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/3/) — When something opaque blocks the light, a dark area with no light forms behind it — a shadow. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/4/) — Its shape matches the outline of the object. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/5/) — We see an object when light bounces off it and enters our eyes. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/6/) — A smooth shiny surface like a mirror reflects light neatly, so we see a clear picture in it. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/7/) — White sunlight is really a mix of all the colours of the rainbow. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/9/) — Materials that let all the light through, like clear glass, are transparent; ones that let some through, like frosted glass, are translucent; ones that let none through, like wood, are opaque. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/10/) — Light travels in straight lines. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/11/) — The Sun, a candle and a torch give off their own light, but the Moon only reflects sunlight. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/12/) — A shadow forms where an opaque object blocks the light. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/13/) — Moving an object closer to a lamp makes its shadow bigger. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/14/) — We see things when light from them enters our eyes. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/15/) — A mirror reflects light in a neat way, so it shows a clear image. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/16/) — White light is a mixture of all the colours of the rainbow. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/17/) — An object looks the colour of the light it reflects; it absorbs the other colours. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/18/) — A black object absorbs almost all light, and a white object reflects almost all of it. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/19/) — Light travels much faster than sound. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/20/) — Transparent materials let light through, translucent ones let some through, and opaque ones block it. - ← previous: [Simple machines and how they help](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/) - next →: [Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/54-sound/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)