--- title: White sunlight is really a mixture of all the colours, and when it p… — Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky · tree and pragmatics description: White sunlight is really a mixture of all the colours, and when it passes through a raindrop or a glass prism each colour bends by a slightly different amount, so they fan out into a rainbow. Who acts: White sunlight, sunlight, colour, colours. 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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 (White sunlight, sunlight, colour, colours), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:021-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky.lesson:1 # text = White sunlight is really a mixture of all the colours, and when it passes through a raindrop or a glass prism each colour bends by a slightly different amount, so they fan out into a rainbow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 021-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky.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 ×2 1 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mixture mixture NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 16 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 raindrop raindrop NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 prism prism NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 fan fan VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **is a** | present | White sunlight | a mixture | | | | of all colours | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | present | sunlight | | | a raindrop or a glass prism | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through raindrop=Location | | 3 | **bend** | present | each colour | | | | | by a different amount | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by amount=Location | | 4 | **fan out** | present | colours *= colour* | | | a rainbow | | | tree rules | 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:physics:021-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky.lesson:1`. **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 ×2. **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: [Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky/0/) - next →: [Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky/)