Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 15
A rainbow appears when raindrops bend sunlight and split it into its colours; you see one only with the Sun behind you.
Who acts: rainbow, raindrops, you · What happens: appear, bend, split, see · To what, where: sunlight, colours, one
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, raindrops, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rainbow | det |
| 2 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appears | nsubj |
| 3 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 bend | mark |
| 5 | raindrops | raindrop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bend | nsubj |
| 6 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 appears | advcl |
| 7 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bend | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 split | cc |
| 9 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bend | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 split | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 colours | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 colours | nmod:poss |
| 13 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 split | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 appears | parataxis |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 Sun | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Sun | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sun | det |
| 21 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 Sun | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | a rainbow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bend | present | raindrops | sunlight | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent sunlight=Material | ||||
| 3 | split | present | raindrops not said here | sunlight | into rainbow's colours result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into colour=Result | |||
| 4 | see | present | you | one | with the Sun behind you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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:15.
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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