--- title: A beetle's rainbow shell, the blue sky and a rainbow are made by lig… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics description: A beetle's rainbow shell, the blue sky and a rainbow are made by light bouncing, scattering and bending, not by any coloured stuff. Who acts: coloured stuff. 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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 (coloured stuff), 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:6 # text = A beetle's rainbow shell, the blue sky and a rainbow are made by light bouncing, scattering and bending, not by any coloured stuff. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 17 bouncing bounce NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 scattering scatter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 bending bend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 26 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | any coloured stuff | a beetle's rainbow shell and the blue sky and a rainbow | | | | light bouncing *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 2 | **scatter** | gerund | any coloured stuff *not said here* | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bend** | gerund | any coloured stuff *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.lesson:6`. **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, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/5/) - next →: [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/)