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title: A rainbow is not a thing in one place, so you can never reach its end. — Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and ra… · tree and pragmatics
description: A rainbow is not a thing in one place, so you can never reach its end. Who acts: rainbow, you. A sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows, sentence 11

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A rainbow is not a thing in one place, so you can never reach its end.

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**Who acts:** rainbow, you · **What happens:** not be, not reach · **To what, where:** thing, one place, end

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» of the everyday 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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:11
# text = A rainbow is not a thing in one place, so you can never reach its end.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:aux|HaikuPos=VERB:MD:VerbForm=Fin
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a rainbow | a thing |  | one place |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **reach** | can | you | rainbow's end |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme |

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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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**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:everyday:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain.lesson:11`.

**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): R8-pos-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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