--- title: In autumn trees stop making green chlorophyll, so yellow and orange… — The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body a… · tree and pragmatics description: In autumn trees stop making green chlorophyll, so yellow and orange colours that were hidden show through, some leaves make new red colours, and then the leaves fall to save water in winter. Who acts: trees, yellow colours, leaves. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, yellow colours, leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:14 # text = In autumn trees stop making green chlorophyll, so yellow and orange colours that were hidden show through, some leaves make new red colours, and then the leaves fall to save water in winter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 5 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 chlorophyll chlorophyll NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 hidden hidden VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 through through ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 34 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22: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 | **stop** | present | trees | | | | autumn | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | gerund | trees *not said here* | green chlorophyll | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chlorophyll=Product | | 3 | **hidden** | past · passive | | yellow colours | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **show** | present | yellow colours | | | | | through *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | some leaves | new red colours | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset colour=Product | | 6 | **fall** | present | the leaves | | | | then | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **save** | to-infinitive | the leaves *not said here* | water | | | winter | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:14`. **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): R6-punct-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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