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title: To see a rainbow, stand with the sun behind you and look towards the… — Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries… · tree and pragmatics
description: To see a rainbow, stand with the sun behind you and look towards the rain. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 8

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To see a rainbow, stand with the sun behind you and look towards the rain.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, stand, look · **To what, where:** rainbow

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:8
# text = To see a rainbow, stand with the sun behind you and look towards the rain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.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	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
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	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	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	VerbForm=Inf	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	.	_	6	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 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a rainbow |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rainbow=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the sun; behind you | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind you=Location |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards the rain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards rain=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:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:8`.

**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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