--- title: In autumn the chlorophyll breaks down, and the yellow and orange pig… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics description: In autumn the chlorophyll breaks down, and the yellow and orange pigments that were there all summer show through; red comes from new pigments some trees make in autumn. Who acts: chlorophyll, that, yellow pigments, red. 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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, that, yellow pigments, red), 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:8 # text = In autumn the chlorophyll breaks down, and the yellow and orange pigments that were there all summer show through; red comes from new pigments some trees make in autumn. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 chlorophyll chlorophyll NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 6 down down ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 pigments pigment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 conj _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 18 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl:relcl 20 through through ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 red red NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 pigments pigment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break down** | present | the chlorophyll | | | | autumn | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | that | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **show through** | present | the yellow pigments | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | present | red | | | new pigments | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pigment=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **make** | present | some trees | new pigments *not said here* | | | autumn | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pigment=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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