Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 10
Carrots are orange because of beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, needed for the eyes.
Who acts: Carrots, body · What happens: be, turn, need · To what, where: beta carotene, vitamin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry 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 (Carrots, body), 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 | Carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 orange | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 orange | cop |
| 3 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 8 carotene | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 because | fixed |
| 6 | beta | beta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carotene | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 beta | punct |
| 8 | carotene | carotene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 orange | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turns | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 turns | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turns | nsubj |
| 13 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 carotene | acl:relcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 vitamin | case |
| 15 | vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turns | obl |
| 16 | A | A | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vitamin | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 needed | punct |
| 18 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 vitamin | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 eyes | det |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 needed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 orange | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Carrots | because beta carotene; orange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | the body | beta carotene | vitamin | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme into vitamin=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | need | participle | vitamin not said here | for the eyes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.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): 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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