--- title: Chlorophyll is the green pigment of leaves; it soaks up red and blue… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics description: Chlorophyll is the green pigment of leaves; it soaks up red and blue light, reflects green, and the plant uses the light's energy to make its food. Who acts: Chlorophyll, plant. 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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 (Chlorophyll, plant), 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:7 # text = Chlorophyll is the green pigment of leaves; it soaks up red and blue light, reflects green, and the plant uses the light's energy to make its food. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Chlorophyll chlorophyll NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 pigment pigment NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 soaks soak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 17 reflects reflect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 18 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | Chlorophyll | the green pigment | | | | of leaves | tree rules | | 2 | **soak up** | present | chlorophyll | red light | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent light=Source | | 3 | **reflect** | present | chlorophyll *not said here* | green | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **use** | present | the plant | the light's energy | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | the plant *not said here* | light's food | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product | 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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