Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 1

A rainbow is light, not a thing in one place, so you can never walk to the end of a rainbow: it moves as you move.

Who acts: rainbow, you · What happens: be, not walk, move

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, 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	4 light	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 light	cop
4	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 thing	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 light	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 place	nummod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 walk	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 walk	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 walk	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 walk	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 walk	advmod
17	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 light	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 end	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 end	det
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walk	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 rainbow	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 rainbow	det
23	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 end	nmod
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 moves	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 moves	nsubj
26	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 light	parataxis
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 move	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 move	nsubj
29	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 moves	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 light	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a rainbow		light property	tree rules
2	not walk	can	you	to the end of a rainbow		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to end=Result
3	move	present	rainbow			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	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:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:1.

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): R8-pos-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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