--- title: The blue morpho's blue is not paint: tiny ridges on its wing scales… — The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and… · tree and pragmatics description: The blue morpho's blue is not paint: tiny ridges on its wing scales bounce back only blue light, so the colour would vanish if the scales were ground to powder. Who acts: blue, tiny ridges, colour. A sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» of the biology cours --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The rainforest from the top: emergent…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/) / 13 # The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 13 The blue morpho's blue is not paint: tiny ridges on its wing scales bounce back only blue light, so the colour would vanish if the scales were ground to powder. **Who acts:** blue, tiny ridges, colour · **What happens:** not be, bounce back, vanish, be, powder · **To what, where:** paint, blue light, scales This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» of the biology 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 (blue, tiny ridges, colour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:13 # text = The blue morpho's blue is not paint: tiny ridges on its wing scales bounce back only blue light, so the colour would vanish if the scales were ground to powder. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 morpho morpho NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 blue blue NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 10 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 ridges ridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 bounce bounce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 19 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:parataxis 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:aux:pass 31 ground grind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 33 powder powder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the blue morpho's blue | paint | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bounce back** | present | tiny ridges on blue's wing scales | blue light | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Agent | | 3 | **vanish** | would | the colour | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | | the scales | | | | grind *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **powder** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The rainforest from the top: emergent…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/12/) - next →: [The rainforest from the top: emergent…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/)