--- title: A shadow forms where an opaque object blocks the light. — Light, shadows and colours · tree and pragmatics description: A shadow forms where an opaque object blocks the light. Who acts: shadow, opaque object. A sentence of the lesson «Light, shadows and colours» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/12/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/) / 12 # Light, shadows and colours, sentence 12 A shadow forms where an opaque object blocks the light. **Who acts:** shadow, opaque object · **What happens:** form, block · **To what, where:** light This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, shadows and colours» of the world 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 (shadow, opaque object), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:053-light.lesson:12 # text = A shadow forms where an opaque object blocks the light. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 053-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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 forms form VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 opaque opaque ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 blocks block VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **form** | present | a shadow | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **block** | present | a opaque object | the light | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer light=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:053-light.lesson:12`. **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 ×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: [Light, shadows and colours, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/11/) - next →: [Light, shadows and colours, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/)