Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 3
A leaf's chlorophyll soaks up red and blue light and sends back green, so the leaf looks green.
Who acts: chlorophyll, leaf · What happens: soak up, send back, look · To what, where: red light, green
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 (chlorophyll, leaf), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 leaf | det |
| 2 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chlorophyll | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 leaf | case |
| 4 | chlorophyll | chlorophyll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soaks | nsubj |
| 5 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 soaks | compound:prt |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 light | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 blue | cc |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 red | conj |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soaks | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sends | cc |
| 12 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soaks | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 sends | advmod |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sends | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looks | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 looks | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 leaf | det |
| 18 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looks | nsubj |
| 19 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soaks | conj |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 looks | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 soaks | 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 | soak up | present | a leaf's chlorophyll | red light | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent light=Source | ||||
| 2 | send back | present | a leaf's chlorophyll not said here | green | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent green=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | present | the leaf | green property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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: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): 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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