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title: Transparent materials let light through, translucent ones let some t… — Light, shadows and colours · tree and pragmatics
description: Transparent materials let light through, translucent ones let some through, and opaque ones block it. Who acts: Transparent materials, translucent ones, opaque ones. A sentence of the lesson «Light, shadows and colours» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Light, shadows and colours, sentence 20

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Transparent materials let light through, translucent ones let some through, and opaque ones block it.

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**Who acts:** Transparent materials, translucent ones, opaque ones · **What happens:** let, block · **To what, where:** light, some

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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 (Transparent materials, translucent ones, opaque ones), 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:20
# text = Transparent materials let light through, translucent ones let some through, and opaque ones block it.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	through	through	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
7	translucent	translucent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	through	through	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	opaque	opaque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	block	block	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | Transparent materials | light |  |  |  | through *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | present | translucent ones | some |  |  |  | through *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 3 | **block** | present | opaque ones | Light |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme |

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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:20`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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