Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows, sentence 9
A rainbow forms when sunlight bends and splits inside raindrops.
Who acts: rainbow, sunlight · What happens: form, bend, split · To what, where: raindrops
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, sunlight), 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 forms | nsubj |
| 3 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 bends | mark |
| 5 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bends | nsubj |
| 6 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forms | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 splits | cc |
| 8 | splits | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bends | conj |
| 9 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 10 raindrops | case |
| 10 | raindrops | raindrop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 splits | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forms | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | a rainbow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bend | present | sunlight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | split | present | sunlight not said here | raindrops | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:9.
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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