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title: The inside curve of a spoon shows you upside down, while its outside… — Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky · tree and pragmatics
description: The inside curve of a spoon shows you upside down, while its outside curve shows you the right way up and spreads the view out. Who acts: inside curve, outside curve. A sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky, sentence 8

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The inside curve of a spoon shows you upside down, while its outside curve shows you the right way up and spreads the view out.

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**Who acts:** inside curve, outside curve · **What happens:** show, spread · **To what, where:** you, right way, view

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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 (inside curve, outside curve), 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:8
# text = The inside curve of a spoon shows you upside down, while its outside curve shows you the right way up and spreads the view out.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	inside	inside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	curve	curve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	outside	outside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	curve	curve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
21	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | the inside curve of a spoon |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **show** | present | curve's outside curve | the right way | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **spread** | present | curve's outside curve *not said here* | the view |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location view=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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, 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/).

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