Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows, sentence 24

To see a rainbow, stand with the Sun behind you and look towards the rain; you can never reach its end, because the rainbow moves as you move.

Who acts: rainbow, you · What happens: see, stand, look, not reach, move · To what, where: rainbow, end

This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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, 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 see	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 Sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	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	_	21 reach	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 reach	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 reach	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 reach	advmod
21	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	conj
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 end	nmod:poss
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reach	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 moves	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 moves	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rainbow	det
27	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 moves	nsubj
28	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 reach	advcl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 move	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 move	nsubj
31	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 moves	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	not reach	can	you	rain's end		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme
5	move	present	the rainbow			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	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:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:24.

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): R5-strong ×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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