Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 0
A rainbow forms when sunlight goes into raindrops, bends and comes back out split into colours, so to watch a rainbow you stand with the sun behind you and look towards the rain.
Who acts: rainbow, sunlight, you · What happens: form, go, bend, come back, split, watch · To what, where: raindrops, colours, rainbow
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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 | 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 goes | advmod |
| 5 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forms | advcl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 raindrops | case |
| 8 | raindrops | raindrop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 goes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bends | punct |
| 10 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 goes | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 comes | cc |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forms | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 out | advmod |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 comes | advmod |
| 15 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 comes | advcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 colours | case |
| 17 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 split | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 watch | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 watch | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 watch | mark |
| 21 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 forms | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rainbow | det |
| 23 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 watch | obj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 stand | nsubj |
| 25 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 watch | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 sun | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sun | det |
| 28 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stand | obl |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 stand | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 look | cc |
| 32 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 stand | conj |
| 33 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 35 rain | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rain | det |
| 35 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 look | obl |
| 36 | . | . | 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 | go | present | sunlight | raindrops | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into raindrop=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bend | present | sunlight not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come back | present | a rainbow not said here | out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | split | participle | a rainbow not said here | into colours result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into colour=Result | ||||
| 6 | watch | to-infinitive | a rainbow | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rainbow=Theme | |||||
| 7 | stand | present | you | with the sun; behind you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind you=Location | ||||
| 8 | look | infinitive | you not said here | towards the rain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards rain=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:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:0.
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, 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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