Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 6
A beetle's rainbow shell, the blue sky and a rainbow are made by light bouncing, scattering and bending, not by any coloured stuff.
Who acts: coloured stuff · What happens: make, scatter, bend · To what, where: rainbow shell
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 (coloured stuff), 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 beetle | det |
| 2 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shell | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 beetle | case |
| 4 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shell | compound |
| 5 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sky | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sky | amod |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shell | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rainbow | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rainbow | det |
| 12 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shell | conj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bouncing | compound |
| 17 | bouncing | bounce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scattering | punct |
| 19 | scattering | scatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 bouncing | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bending | cc |
| 21 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 bouncing | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stuff | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 stuff | advmod |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 stuff | case |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 stuff | det |
| 26 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stuff | amod |
| 27 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | any coloured stuff | a beetle's rainbow shell and the blue sky and a rainbow | light bouncing obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 2 | scatter | gerund | any coloured stuff not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bend | gerund | any coloured stuff not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:6.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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