Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 4
In autumn a tree stops making green chlorophyll and breaks it down, so the yellow and orange colours hidden underneath show through; red colours are made fresh in autumn.
Who acts: tree, yellow colours · What happens: stop, make, break down, hide, show through · To what, where: green chlorophyll, chlorophyll, yellow colours, red colours
This is a sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» of the biology 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 (tree, yellow colours), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 autumn | case |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stops | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stops | nsubj |
| 5 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 stops | xcomp |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chlorophyll | amod |
| 8 | chlorophyll | chlorophyll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 breaks | cc |
| 10 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stops | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 breaks | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 breaks | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 show | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 show | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 colours | det |
| 16 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 colours | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 orange | cc |
| 18 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 yellow | conj |
| 19 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 show | nsubj |
| 20 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 colours | acl |
| 21 | underneath | underneath | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 hidden | advmod |
| 22 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stops | conj |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 show | compound:prt |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 colours | amod |
| 26 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 made | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux:pass |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stops | conj |
| 29 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 made | xcomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 autumn | case |
| 31 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | a tree | autumn | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | a tree not said here | green chlorophyll | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chlorophyll=Product | ||||
| 3 | break down | present | a tree not said here | chlorophyll | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hide | participle | the yellow colours not said here | underneath property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | show through | present | the yellow colours | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | make | present · passive | red colours | autumn | fresh property | 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, 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:biology:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:4.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.
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