--- title: Using the energy of sunlight, caught by a green substance called chl… — How plants make their food · tree and pragmatics description: Using the energy of sunlight, caught by a green substance called chlorophyll, the leaf turns the water and carbon dioxide into sugar, the plant's food, and gives out oxygen. Who acts: leaf, green substance. A sentence of the lesson «How plants make their food» of the world course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/22-photosynthesis/2/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [How plants make their food](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/22-photosynthesis/) / 2 # How plants make their food, sentence 2 Using the energy of sunlight, caught by a green substance called chlorophyll, the leaf turns the water and carbon dioxide into sugar, the plant's food, and gives out oxygen. **Who acts:** leaf, green substance · **What happens:** use, catch, call, turn, give out · **To what, where:** energy, chlorophyll, water, sugar, oxygen · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «How plants make their food» of the world 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 (leaf, green substance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:022-photosynthesis.lesson:2 # text = Using the energy of sunlight, caught by a green substance called chlorophyll, the leaf turns the water and carbon dioxide into sugar, the plant's food, and gives out oxygen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 022-photosynthesis.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 Using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 advcl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:agent _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 chlorophyll chlorophyll NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | gerund | the leaf *not said here* | the energy of sunlight | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient | | 2 | **catch** | participle | the leaf *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | participle | a green substance *not said here* | chlorophyll | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **turn** | present | the leaf | the water and carbon dioxide | | sugar | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme into sugar=Trajectory | | 5 | **give out** | present | the leaf *not said here* | oxygen | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:022-photosynthesis.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): 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/). - ← previous: [How plants make their food, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/22-photosynthesis/1/) - next →: [How plants make their food, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/22-photosynthesis/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/22-photosynthesis/)