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title: Most colours in nature are pigments, coloured chemicals that soak up… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Most colours in nature are pigments, coloured chemicals that soak up some colours of light and send back the rest. Who acts: Most colours, coloured chemicals. 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 t
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# Leaves, fruit and colour in nature, sentence 2

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Most colours in nature are pigments, coloured chemicals that soak up some colours of light and send back the rest.

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**Who acts:** Most colours, coloured chemicals · **What happens:** be, colour, soak up, send back · **To what, where:** pigments, colours, rest

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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 (Most colours, coloured chemicals), 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:2
# text = Most colours in nature are pigments, coloured chemicals that soak up some colours of light and send back the rest.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	pigments	pigment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	coloured	colour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
9	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	soak	soak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Most colours in nature | pigments |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **colour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **soak up** | present | coloured chemicals | some colours of light |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Source |
| 4 | **send back** | present | coloured chemicals *not said here* | the rest |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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:chemistry:028-colour-in-nature.lesson:2`.

**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 ×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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