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title: The rainbow shine of some beetles, peacock feathers and butterfly wi… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics
description: The rainbow shine of some beetles, peacock feathers and butterfly wings comes from tiny layered structures that reflect light like a soap bubble, not from pigment. Who acts: rainbow shine, tiny layered structures. A sentence of the lesson «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry course 
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# Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 13

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The rainbow shine of some beetles, peacock feathers and butterfly wings comes from tiny layered structures that reflect light like a soap bubble, not from pigment.

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**Who acts:** rainbow shine, tiny layered structures · **What happens:** come, layer, reflect · **To what, where:** tiny layered structures, light

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry 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 shine, tiny layered structures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.lesson:13
# text = The rainbow shine of some beetles, peacock feathers and butterfly wings comes from tiny layered structures that reflect light like a soap bubble, not from pigment.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 028-colour-in-nature.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	layered	layer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	structures	structure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	reflect	reflect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bubble	bubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	pigment	pigment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the rainbow shine of some beetles and peacock feathers and butterfly wings |  |  | tiny layered structures |  | from pigment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from structure=Initial\_Location from pigment=Destination |
| 2 | **layer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reflect** | present | tiny layered structures | light |  |  |  | like a soap bubble | tree rules |

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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.

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**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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