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title: In autumn the tree stops making green chlorophyll, so the yellow and… — Trees and forests through the year · tree and pragmatics
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# Trees and forests through the year, sentence 2

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In autumn the tree stops making green chlorophyll, so the yellow and orange colours that were hidden in the leaf show through; in spring new buds open and the tree starts making food again.

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**Who acts:** tree, yellow colours, new buds · **What happens:** stop, make, hide, show through, open, start · **To what, where:** green chlorophyll, yellow colours, leaf, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees and forests through the year» 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 (tree, yellow colours, new buds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:076-trees-and-forests-through-the-year.lesson:2
# text = In autumn the tree stops making green chlorophyll, so the yellow and orange colours that were hidden in the leaf show through; in spring new buds open and the tree starts making food again.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 076-trees-and-forests-through-the-year.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	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	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
27	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	_
35	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **stop** | present | the tree |  |  |  | autumn |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the tree *not said here* | green chlorophyll |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chlorophyll=Product |
| 3 | **hide** | past · passive |  | the yellow colours |  | the leaf |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in leaf=Location |
| 4 | **show through** | present | the yellow colours |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **open** | present | new buds |  |  |  | spring |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **start** | present | the tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **make** | gerund | the tree *not said here* | food |  |  | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |

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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:world:076-trees-and-forests-through-the-year.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/).

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