--- title: The white patches of a variegated leaf have no chlorophyll and make… — Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree i… · tree and pragmatics description: The white patches of a variegated leaf have no chlorophyll and make no food, so such plants often grow more slowly. Who acts: white patches, such plants. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, ho…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/) / 15 # Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air, sentence 15 The white patches of a variegated leaf have no chlorophyll and make no food, so such plants often grow more slowly. **Who acts:** white patches, such plants · **What happens:** have, make, grow · **To what, where:** chlorophyll, food This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air» of the biology 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 (white patches, such plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.lesson:15 # text = The white patches of a variegated leaf have no chlorophyll and make no food, so such plants often grow more slowly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 variegated variegate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 10 chlorophyll chlorophyll NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **have** | present | the white patches of a variegated leaf | no chlorophyll | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chlorophyll=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | the white patches of a variegated leaf *not said here* | no food | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product | | 3 | **grow** | present | such plants | | | | | often, slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.lesson:15`. **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 ×2. **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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