Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 7

Chlorophyll is the green pigment of leaves; it soaks up red and blue light, reflects green, and the plant uses the light's energy to make its food.

Who acts: Chlorophyll, plant · What happens: be, soak up, reflect, use, make · To what, where: green pigment, red light, green, energy, food

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, plant), 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	Chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pigment	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pigment	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pigment	det
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pigment	amod
5	pigment	pigment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pigment	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 soaks	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 soaks	nsubj
10	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pigment	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 soaks	compound:prt
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 light	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 blue	cc
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 red	conj
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soaks	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reflects	punct
17	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 soaks	conj
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reflects	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 uses	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 uses	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 plant	det
22	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 uses	nsubj
23	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 reflects	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 light	det
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 energy	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 light	case
27	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 uses	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 uses	advcl
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 food	nmod:poss
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pigment	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Chlorophyll	the green pigment	of leaves	tree rules
2	soak up	present	chlorophyll	red light		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent light=Source
3	reflect	present	chlorophyll not said here	green		tree rules
4	use	present	the plant	the light's energy		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient
5	make	to-infinitive	the plant not said here	light's food		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

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:7.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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