Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 8
To see a rainbow, stand with the sun behind you and look towards the rain.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, stand, look · To what, where: 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 (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 | 6 stand | advcl |
| 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 | root | root |
| 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 | _ | 6 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | a rainbow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rainbow=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | imperative | you not said here | with the sun; behind you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind you=Location | ||||
| 3 | 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:8.
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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