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title: To see a rainbow, stand with the Sun behind you and look towards the… — Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and ra… · tree and pragmatics
description: To see a rainbow, stand with the Sun behind you and look towards the rain; you can never reach its end, because the rainbow moves as you move. 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 wit
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# Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows, sentence 24

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To see a rainbow, stand with the Sun behind you and look towards the rain; you can never reach its end, because the rainbow moves as you move.

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**Who acts:** rainbow, you · **What happens:** see, stand, look, not reach, move · **To what, where:** rainbow, 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:24
# text = To see a rainbow, stand with the Sun behind you and look towards the rain; you can never reach its end, because the rainbow moves as you move.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det
27	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | a rainbow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive | a rainbow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Sun; behind you | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind you=Location |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | a rainbow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards the rain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards rain=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **reach** | can | you | rain's end |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 5 | **move** | present | the rainbow |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **move** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:24`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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