Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 8

In autumn the chlorophyll breaks down, and the yellow and orange pigments that were there all summer show through; red comes from new pigments some trees make in autumn.

Who acts: chlorophyll, that, yellow pigments, red, trees · What happens: break down, be, show through, come, make · To what, where: new pigments

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, that, yellow pigments, red), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 autumn	case
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breaks	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chlorophyll	det
4	chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breaks	nsubj
5	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 comes	conj
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 breaks	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 show	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 there	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pigments	det
10	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pigments	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 orange	cc
12	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 yellow	conj
13	pigments	pigment	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 show	nsubj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 there	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 there	cop
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 autumn	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 summer	det
18	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 show	compound
19	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 breaks	conj
20	through	through	ADP	_	19 show	compound:prt
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 comes	punct
22	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 comes	nsubj
23	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 pigments	case
25	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pigments	amod
26	pigments	pigment	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 comes	obl
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 trees	det
28	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	nsubj
29	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 pigments	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 autumn	case
31	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break down	present	the chlorophyll			autumn		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	that				there property	tree rules
3	show through	present	the yellow pigments					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	present	red		new pigments			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pigment=Initial_Location
5	make	present	some trees	new pigments not said here		autumn		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pigment=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:8.

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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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