--- title: A thin film of oil on a puddle shows rainbow colours, as soap bubble… — Oil and water, and things that won't mix · tree and pragmatics description: A thin film of oil on a puddle shows rainbow colours, as soap bubbles do, because light reflects off its top and bottom; the colours depend on how thick the film is, so they swirl as it spreads and drifts. Who acts: thin film, light, colours, film. 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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 (thin film, light, colours, film), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:007-oil-and-water.lesson:9 # text = A thin film of oil on a puddle shows rainbow colours, as soap bubbles do, because light reflects off its top and bottom; the colours depend on how thick the film is, so they swirl as it spreads and drifts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 007-oil-and-water.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 puddle puddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 bubbles bubble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 reflects reflect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 21 off off ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 depend depend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 ccomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 swirl swirl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 drifts drift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a thin film of oil on a puddle | rainbow colours | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent colour=Recipient | | 2 | **reflect off** | present | light | oil's top and bottom | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **depend** | present | the colours | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the film | | | | | thick *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **swirl** | present | colours *= colour* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **spread** | present | film | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **drift** | present | film *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **film** | | | oil | | a puddle | | | nom film «communication transitive»: of=patient on=place | 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. 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