Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky, sentence 12
A glass prism bends violet light most and red light least, and Newton showed that a second prism could mix the colours back into white.
Who acts: glass prism, Newton, second prism · What happens: bend, show, mix · To what, where: violet light, colours · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (glass prism, Newton, second prism), 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 prism | det |
| 2 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prism | compound |
| 3 | prism | prism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bends | nsubj |
| 4 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | compound |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bends | obj |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 light | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 light | cc |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 light | amod |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | conj |
| 11 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 light | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 showed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 showed | cc |
| 14 | Newton | Newton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 showed | nsubj |
| 15 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bends | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 mix | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 prism | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 prism | amod |
| 19 | prism | prism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mix | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 mix | aux |
| 21 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 showed | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 colours | det |
| 23 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mix | obj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 mix | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 white | case |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 back | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present | a glass prism | violet light and red light | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material | ||||
| 2 | show | past | Newton | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mix | could | a second prism | the colours | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=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:12.
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 ×2. 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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