Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 17
Veins look blue through the skin because of the way skin lets through and scatters light.
Who acts: Veins, skin · What happens: look, let through, scatter · To what, where: way, light
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 (Veins, skin), 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 | Veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 look | xcomp |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 skin | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skin | det |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| 7 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 10 way | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 because | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lets | nsubj |
| 12 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | acl:relcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 lets | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 scatters | cc |
| 15 | scatters | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lets | conj |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scatters | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Veins | because the way; through the skin; blue property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through skin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let through | present | skin | the way not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scatter | present | skin not said here | light | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.lesson:17.
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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