Trees and forests through the year, sentence 10
Leaves turn yellow and orange in autumn because the green chlorophyll breaks down.
Who acts: Leaves, green chlorophyll · What happens: turn, break down
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees and forests through the year» 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 (Leaves, green chlorophyll), 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 | Leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 turn | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 orange | cc |
| 5 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 yellow | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 autumn | case |
| 7 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turn | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 breaks | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chlorophyll | det |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chlorophyll | amod |
| 11 | chlorophyll | chlorophyll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 breaks | nsubj |
| 12 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 turn | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 breaks | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turn | 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 | turn | present | Leaves | autumn | yellow property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | break down | present | the green chlorophyll | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:076-trees-and-forests-through-the-year.lesson:10.
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. 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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