--- title: A rainbow is a smooth spread of countless colours; Isaac Newton chos… — Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts · tree and pragmatics description: A rainbow is a smooth spread of countless colours; Isaac Newton chose to name seven, partly to match the seven notes of a musical scale. Who acts: rainbow, Isaac. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rainbow, Isaac), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:18 # text = A rainbow is a smooth spread of countless colours; Isaac Newton chose to name seven, partly to match the seven notes of a musical scale. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.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): R7-rel-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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 spread spread NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 countless countless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 Newton Newton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 name name VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 partly partly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 musical musical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 scale scale NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a rainbow | a smooth spread | | | | of countless colours | tree rules | | 2 | **choose** | past | Isaac | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **name** | to-infinitive | Isaac *not said here* | seven | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Theme | | 4 | **match** | to-infinitive | Isaac *not said here* | the seven notes of a musical scale | | | | partly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Patient | | 5 | **note** | | | a musical scale | | | | | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:18`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts/17/) - next →: [Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/18-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts/)