Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 10

A rainbow appears when the Sun is behind you and rain is in front of you: each raindrop bends and reflects the sunlight and splits it into colours.

Who acts: rainbow, Sun, rain, raindrop · What happens: appear, be, bend, reflect, split · To what, where: front, sunlight, rainbow, colours

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, shadows and colours» of the world 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, Sun, rain, raindrop), 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	3 appears	nsubj
3	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 you	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 you	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 you	cop
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 appears	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 front	cc
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 front	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 front	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 you	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 front	nmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 appears	punct
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 raindrop	det
19	raindrop	raindrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bends	nsubj
20	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 appears	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 reflects	cc
22	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bends	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sunlight	det
24	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reflects	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 splits	cc
26	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bends	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 splits	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 colours	case
29	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 splits	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 appears	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	present	a rainbow				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the Sun			behind you	tree rules
3	is	present	rain		front	of you	tree rules
4	bend	present	each raindrop				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	reflect	present	each raindrop not said here	the sunlight			tree rules
6	split	present	each raindrop not said here	rainbow		into colours result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into colour=Result

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:world:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.lesson:10.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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