--- title: A rainbow forms when sunlight bends inside raindrops and splits into… — Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries… · tree and pragmatics description: A rainbow forms when sunlight bends inside raindrops and splits into colours; you cannot reach the end of a rainbow. Who acts: sunlight, 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 w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, bl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/) / 9 # Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 9 A rainbow forms when sunlight bends inside raindrops and splits into colours; you cannot reach the end of a rainbow. **Who acts:** sunlight, you · **What happens:** form, bend, split, not reach · **To what, where:** raindrops, colours, end 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 (sunlight, 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:9 # text = A rainbow forms when sunlight bends inside raindrops and splits into colours; you cannot reach the end of a rainbow. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 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 inside inside ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 raindrops raindrop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **form** | present | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bend** | present | sunlight | | | raindrops | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside raindrop=Location | | 3 | **split** | present | sunlight *not said here* | | | | | into colours *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into colour=Result | | 4 | **not** **reach** | can | you | the end of a rainbow | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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