--- title: A rainbow appears when raindrops bend sunlight and split it into its… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics description: A rainbow appears when raindrops bend sunlight and split it into its colours; you see one only with the Sun behind you. Who acts: rainbow, raindrops, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rainbow, raindrops, you), 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:15 # text = A rainbow appears when raindrops bend sunlight and split it into its colours; you see one only with the Sun behind you. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 5 raindrops raindrop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 bend bend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 split split VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obj _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 behind behind ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | present | a rainbow | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bend** | present | raindrops | sunlight | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent sunlight=Material | | 3 | **split** | present | raindrops *not said here* | sunlight | | | | into rainbow's colours *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into colour=Result | | 4 | **see** | present | you | one | | | | with the Sun behind you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | 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:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.lesson:15`. **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/). - ← previous: [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/14/) - next →: [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/)