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title: A rainbow forms when sunlight bends and splits inside raindrops. — Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and ra… · tree and pragmatics
description: A rainbow forms when sunlight bends and splits inside raindrops. Who acts: rainbow, sunlight. 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 9

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A rainbow forms when sunlight bends and splits inside raindrops.

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**Who acts:** rainbow, sunlight · **What happens:** form, bend, split · **To what, where:** raindrops

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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, sunlight), 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:9
# text = A rainbow forms when sunlight bends and splits inside raindrops.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	splits	split	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	raindrops	raindrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | a rainbow |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | present | sunlight |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **split** | present | sunlight *not said here* |  |  | raindrops |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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): no change. **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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