Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 13

The rainbow shine of some beetles, peacock feathers and butterfly wings comes from tiny layered structures that reflect light like a soap bubble, not from pigment.

Who acts: rainbow shine, tiny layered structures · What happens: come, layer, reflect · To what, where: tiny layered structures, light

This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry 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 (rainbow shine, tiny layered structures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shine	det
2	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shine	compound
3	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 beetles	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 beetles	det
6	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shine	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feathers	punct
8	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feathers	compound
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beetles	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wings	cc
11	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wings	compound
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beetles	conj
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 structures	case
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 structures	amod
16	layered	layer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 structures	amod
17	structures	structure	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 comes	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 reflect	nsubj
19	reflect	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 structures	acl:relcl
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reflect	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 bubble	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bubble	det
23	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bubble	compound
24	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reflect	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pigment	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 pigment	advmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 pigment	case
28	pigment	pigment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	the rainbow shine of some beetles and peacock feathers and butterfly wings		tiny layered structures	from pigment	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from structure=Initial_Location from pigment=Destination
2	layer	participle					tree rules
3	reflect	present	tiny layered structures	light		like a soap bubble	tree rules

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, 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:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.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): 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.

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