Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 2
Most colours in nature are pigments, coloured chemicals that soak up some colours of light and send back the rest.
Who acts: Most colours, coloured chemicals · What happens: be, colour, soak up, send back · To what, where: pigments, colours, rest
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 (Most colours, coloured chemicals), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 colours | amod |
| 2 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pigments | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 nature | case |
| 4 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 colours | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pigments | cop |
| 6 | pigments | pigment | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 chemicals | punct |
| 8 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 chemicals | amod |
| 9 | chemicals | chemical | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pigments | appos |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 soak | nsubj |
| 11 | soak | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 chemicals | acl:relcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 soak | compound:prt |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 colours | det |
| 14 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 soak | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 colours | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 send | cc |
| 18 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 soak | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 send | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rest | det |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 send | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pigments | 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 | Most colours in nature | pigments | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | colour | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | soak up | present | coloured chemicals | some colours of light | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Source | ||||
| 4 | send back | present | coloured chemicals not said here | the rest | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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:2.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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