--- title: Food can change colour too: a tomato turns from green to red as it r… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics description: Food can change colour too: a tomato turns from green to red as it ripens, and a flamingo turns pink from the pink pigments in the shrimps and tiny algae it eats. Who acts: Food, tomato, flamingo. 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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 (Food, tomato, flamingo), 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:4 # text = Food can change colour too: a tomato turns from green to red as it ripens, and a flamingo turns pink from the pink pigments in the shrimps and tiny algae it eats. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tomato tomato NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ripens ripen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 flamingo flamingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 22 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 pigments pigment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **change** | can | Food | colour | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 2 | **turn** | present | a tomato | | | green | | to red *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from green=Initial\_State to red=Result | | 3 | **ripen** | present | tomato | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **turn** | present | a flamingo | | | the pink pigments in the shrimps and tiny algae | | pink *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from pigment=Trajectory | | 5 | **eat** | present | flamingo | tiny algae *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Patient | 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. 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