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title: A fine spray from a garden hose, with your back to the Sun, can make… — Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky · tree and pragmatics
description: A fine spray from a garden hose, with your back to the Sun, can make a little rainbow, because any water drop can split light. Who acts: fine spray, water drop. A sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky, sentence 11

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A fine spray from a garden hose, with your back to the Sun, can make a little rainbow, because any water drop can split light.

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**Who acts:** fine spray, water drop · **What happens:** make, split · **To what, where:** little rainbow, light

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky» of the physics 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 (fine spray, water drop), 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:11
# text = A fine spray from a garden hose, with your back to the Sun, can make a little rainbow, because any water drop can split light.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hose	hose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
28	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **make** | can | a fine spray from a garden hose with your back to the Sun | a little rainbow |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rainbow=Product |
| 2 | **split** | can | any water drop | light |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |

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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:physics:021-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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