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title: The colours of the rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, ind… — Mirrors, shadows and colours · tree and pragmatics
description: The colours of the rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, with red on the outside edge of the bow. Who acts: colours. 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 cl
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# Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 22

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The colours of the rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, with red on the outside edge of the bow.

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**Who acts:** colours · **What happens:** be

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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 (colours), 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:22
# text = The colours of the rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, with red on the outside edge of the bow.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	indigo	indigo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	violet	violet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	red	red	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	outside	outside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present | the colours of the rainbow |  |  |  |  | with red on the outside edge of the bow; red *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the colours of the rainbow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the colours of the rainbow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the colours of the rainbow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the colours of the rainbow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:world:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.lesson:22`.

**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. **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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