---
title: Carrots are orange because of beta-carotene, which the body turns in… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Carrots are orange because of beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, needed for the eyes. Who acts: Carrots, body. A sentence of the lesson «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/) / 10

# Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Carrots are orange because of beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, needed for the eyes.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Carrots, body · **What happens:** be, turn, need · **To what, where:** beta carotene, vitamin

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry 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 (Carrots, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.lesson:10
# text = Carrots are orange because of beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, needed for the eyes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 028-colour-in-nature.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): no change
1	Carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	beta	beta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	carotene	carotene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	A	A	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Carrots |  |  |  |  | because beta carotene; orange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | the body | beta carotene |  | vitamin |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme into vitamin=Trajectory |
| 3 | **need** | participle |  | vitamin *not said here* |  |  |  | for the eyes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.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): 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.

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

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/9/)
- next →: [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/11/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/)