Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air, sentence 3
The green stuff in leaves, chlorophyll, is what catches the light.
Who acts: green stuff · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air» 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 (green stuff), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stuff | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stuff | amod |
| 3 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 leaves | case |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stuff | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chlorophyll | punct |
| 7 | chlorophyll | chlorophyll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stuff | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | cop |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 11 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 light | det |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 catches | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
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 | is a | present | the green stuff in leaves and chlorophyll | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch | present | the light | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
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:251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.lesson:3.
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.
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