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title: Moving an object closer to a lamp makes its shadow bigger. — Light, shadows and colours · tree and pragmatics
description: Moving an object closer to a lamp makes its shadow bigger. Who acts: Moving, 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.
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# Light, shadows and colours, sentence 13

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Moving an object closer to a lamp makes its shadow bigger.

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**Who acts:** Moving, object · **What happens:** move, make, shadow · **To what, where:** object, shadow

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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 (Moving, 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:13
# text = Moving an object closer to a lamp makes its shadow bigger.
# 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 ×2
1	Moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  | a object |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent object=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | Moving | object's shadow |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shadow=Product |
| 3 | **shadow** |  | object |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:world:053-light.lesson:13`.

**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 ×2. **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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