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title: In autumn trees break down the green stuff in their leaves and take… — The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and… · tree and pragmatics
description: In autumn trees break down the green stuff in their leaves and take back what they can; yellows were hidden under the green all summer, while reds are newly made, and sunny days with cold nights give the brightest reds. Who acts: trees, sunny days. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in autumn: col
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# The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 6

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In autumn trees break down the green stuff in their leaves and take back what they can; yellows were hidden under the green all summer, while reds are newly made, and sunny days with cold nights give the brightest reds.

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**Who acts:** trees, sunny days · **What happens:** break down, take back, hide, make, give · **To what, where:** green stuff, leaves, yellows, reds, brightest reds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» 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 (trees, sunny days), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:6
# text = In autumn trees break down the green stuff in their leaves and take back what they can; yellows were hidden under the green all summer, while reds are newly made, and sunny days with cold nights give the brightest reds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-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	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	yellows	yellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
24	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:amod
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	reds	red	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:nsubj
40	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	43	amod	_	_
43	reds	red	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break down** | present | trees | the green stuff |  | trees's leaves | autumn |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient |
| 2 | **take back** | present | trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | past · passive |  | yellows |  |  | summer | the green *obl* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | present · passive |  | reds |  |  | day | newly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **give** | present | sunny days  cold nights *not said here* | the brightest reds |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Theme |

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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.

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**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:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:6`.

**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 ×4, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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