--- title: A prism splits white light into the colours of the rainbow. — Mirrors, shadows and colours · tree and pragmatics description: A prism splits white light into the colours of the rainbow. Who acts: prism. A sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, shadows and colours» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Mirrors, shadows and colours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/) / 20 # Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 20 A prism splits white light into the colours of the rainbow. **Who acts:** prism · **What happens:** split · **To what, where:** white light, colours This is a sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, shadows and colours» of the world 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 (prism), 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:20 # text = A prism splits white light into the colours of the rainbow. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prism prism NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 . . 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 | **split** | present | a prism | white light | | | | into the colours of the rainbow *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent light=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:20`. **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, shadows and colours, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/19/) - next →: [Mirrors, shadows and colours, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/)