Rain, floods and storms, sentence 17
To see a rainbow, stand with the sun behind you and look towards the rain; it forms when sunlight bends in raindrops, and you can never reach its end, because it moves as you move.
Who acts: rainbow, sunlight, you · What happens: see, stand, look, form, bend, not reach · To what, where: rainbow, raindrops, end
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rain, floods and storms» of the everyday 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, sunlight, 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 see | mark |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rainbow | det |
| 4 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 stand | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 look | cc |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stand | conj |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 rain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rain | det |
| 16 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 forms | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 forms | nsubj |
| 19 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | advcl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 bends | advmod |
| 21 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bends | nsubj |
| 22 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 forms | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 raindrops | case |
| 24 | raindrops | raindrop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bends | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 reach | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 reach | cc |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 reach | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 reach | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 reach | advmod |
| 30 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 forms | conj |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 end | nmod:poss |
| 32 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 reach | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 moves | punct |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 36 moves | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 moves | nsubj |
| 36 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 reach | advcl |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 move | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 move | nsubj |
| 39 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 moves | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | a rainbow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | infinitive | a rainbow not said here | with the sun; behind you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind you=Location | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | a rainbow not said here | towards the rain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards rain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | form | present | rainbow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bend | present | sunlight | raindrops | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in raindrop=Location | ||||
| 6 | not reach | can | you | sunlight's end | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 7 | move | present | rainbow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | move | present | you | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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