Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky, sentence 11
A fine spray from a garden hose, with your back to the Sun, can make a little rainbow, because any water drop can split light.
Who acts: fine spray, water drop · What happens: make, split · To what, where: little rainbow, light
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky» of the physics 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 (fine spray, water drop), 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 | 3 spray | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spray | amod |
| 3 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hose | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hose | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hose | compound |
| 7 | hose | hose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spray | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 back | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 back | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spray | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Sun | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sun | det |
| 14 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 back | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spray | punct |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rainbow | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rainbow | amod |
| 20 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 split | punct |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 split | mark |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 drop | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drop | compound |
| 25 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 split | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 split | aux |
| 27 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | advcl |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 split | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | a fine spray from a garden hose with your back to the Sun | a little rainbow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rainbow=Product | ||||
| 2 | split | can | any water drop | light | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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:physics:021-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky.lesson:11.
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. 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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