Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 18

A rainbow is a smooth spread of countless colours; Isaac Newton chose to name seven, partly to match the seven notes of a musical scale.

Who acts: rainbow, Isaac · What happens: be, choose, name, match, note · To what, where: smooth spread, seven, seven notes, musical scale

This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths 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, Isaac), 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	6 spread	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spread	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spread	det
5	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spread	amod
6	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 colours	case
8	countless	countless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 colours	amod
9	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spread	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 chose	punct
11	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 chose	nsubj
12	Newton	Newton	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Isaac	flat
13	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spread	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 name	mark
15	name	name	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 chose	xcomp
16	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 name	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 match	punct
18	partly	partly	ADV	_	20 match	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 match	mark
20	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 chose	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 notes	det
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 notes	nummod
23	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 match	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 scale	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 scale	det
26	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 scale	amod
27	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 notes	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a rainbow	a smooth spread	of countless colours	tree rules
2	choose	past	Isaac			tree rules
3	name	to-infinitive	Isaac not said here	seven		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Theme
4	match	to-infinitive	Isaac not said here	the seven notes of a musical scale	partly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Patient
5	note			a musical scale		nom note «communication transitive»: of=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:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:18.

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): 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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