Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 9
A glass prism bends each colour by a different amount and spreads white light into a rainbow of colours.
Who acts: glass prism · What happens: bend, spread · To what, where: colour, white light, rainbow
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 (glass 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 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 colour | det |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bends | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 amount | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 amount | det |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 amount | amod |
| 10 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bends | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spreads | cc |
| 12 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bends | conj |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 light | amod |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spreads | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 rainbow | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rainbow | det |
| 17 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spreads | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 colours | case |
| 19 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rainbow | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | each colour | by a different amount | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme by amount=Location | |||
| 2 | spread | present | a glass prism not said here | white light | a rainbow of colours | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent light=Theme into rainbow=Destination |
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:9.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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