--- title: A rainbow appears when the Sun is behind you and rain is in front of… — Mirrors, shadows and colours · tree and pragmatics description: A rainbow appears when the Sun is behind you and rain is in front of you: each raindrop bends and reflects the sunlight and splits it into colours. Who acts: rainbow, Sun, rain, raindrop. 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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, Sun, rain, raindrop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.lesson:10 # text = A rainbow appears when the Sun is behind you and rain is in front of you: each raindrop bends and reflects the sunlight and splits it into colours. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 084-mirrors-shadows-colours.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 behind behind ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 advcl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 raindrop raindrop NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 reflects reflect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | present | a rainbow | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the Sun | | | | | behind you | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | rain | | | front | | of you | tree rules | | 4 | **bend** | present | each raindrop | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **reflect** | present | each raindrop *not said here* | the sunlight | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **split** | present | each raindrop *not said here* | rainbow | | | | into colours *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into colour=Result | 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:world:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Mirrors, shadows and colours, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/9/) - next →: [Mirrors, shadows and colours, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/)