How plants make their food, sentence 9
Chlorophyll is the green substance in leaves that catches the energy of light.
Who acts: Chlorophyll, green substance · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: green substance, leaves, energy
This is a sentence of the lesson «How plants make their food» of the world 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, green substance), 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 substance | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 substance | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 substance | det |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 substance | amod |
| 5 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 leaves | case |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 substance | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 catches | nsubj |
| 9 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 substance | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 energy | det |
| 11 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 catches | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 light | case |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 energy | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 substance | 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 | Chlorophyll | the green substance | leaves | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | present | the green substance | the energy of light | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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:world:022-photosynthesis.lesson:9.
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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