--- title: A rainbow forms when each raindrop bends sunlight, splits it into co… — Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky · tree and pragmatics description: A rainbow forms when each raindrop bends sunlight, splits it into colours and bounces it back, and you see it only with the Sun behind you. Who acts: rainbow, raindrop, you. 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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, raindrop, you), 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:10 # text = A rainbow forms when each raindrop bends sunlight, splits it into colours and bounces it back, and you see it only with the Sun behind you. # 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): 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 _ 7 mark _ _ 5 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 raindrop raindrop NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 bounces bounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 behind behind ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 21 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 | a rainbow | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bend** | present | each raindrop | sunlight | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent sunlight=Material | | 3 | **split** | present | each raindrop *not said here* | sunlight | | | | into colours *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into colour=Result | | 4 | **bounce back** | present | each raindrop *not said here* | sunlight | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **see** | present | you | sunlight | | | | with the Sun behind you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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:10`. **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/). - ← previous: [Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky/8/) - next →: [Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky/)