--- title: Splitting starlight into a rainbow, called a spectrum, shows dark li… — How we know: measuring the sky · tree and pragmatics description: Splitting starlight into a rainbow, called a spectrum, shows dark lines that reveal which elements the star is made of. Who acts: rainbow, Splitting, dark lines. 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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, Splitting, dark lines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:028-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky.lesson:11 # text = Splitting starlight into a rainbow, called a spectrum, shows dark lines that reveal which elements the star is made of. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 028-how-we-know-measuring-the-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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Splitting split VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ _ 2 starlight starlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 spectrum spectrum NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 reveal reveal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 17 det _ _ 17 elements element NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl:relcl 22 of of ADP IN _ 21 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **split** | gerund | | starlight | | | | into a rainbow *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent starlight=Patient into rainbow=Result | | 2 | **call** | participle | a rainbow *not said here* | a spectrum | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **show** | present | Splitting | dark lines | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent line=Recipient | | 4 | **reveal** | present | dark lines | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present · passive | | the star | | | | which elements *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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:space:028-how-we-know-measuring-the-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 ×2, 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: [How we know: measuring the sky, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/28-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky/9/) - next →: [How we know: measuring the sky, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/28-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/28-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky/)