The air we breathe, sentence 13
The ozone layer, high in the sky, blocks much of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet light; some old spray-can and fridge gases damaged it.
Who acts: ozone layer, old can fridge gases, Sun · What happens: block, damage, light · To what, where: much, layer
This is a sentence of the lesson «The air we breathe» of the chemistry 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 (ozone layer, old can fridge gases, Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 layer | det |
| 2 | ozone | ozone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 layer | compound |
| 3 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blocks | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 layer | amod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sky | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sky | det |
| 8 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 high | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blocks | punct |
| 10 | blocks | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 damaged | parataxis |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blocks | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 light | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sun | det |
| 14 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 light | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Sun | case |
| 16 | harmful | harmful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 light | amod |
| 17 | ultraviolet | ultraviolet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 light | amod |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blocks | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 damaged | punct |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 gases | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 gases | amod |
| 22 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 can | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 spray | punct |
| 24 | can | can | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gases | compound |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gases | cc |
| 26 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gases | compound |
| 27 | gases | gas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 damaged | nsubj |
| 28 | damaged | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 damaged | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 blocks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | block | present | the ozone layer | much | of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet light | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer much=Theme | |||
| 2 | damage | past | some old can fridge gases | layer | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | light | the Sun | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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, 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:chemistry:033-the-air-we-breathe.lesson:13.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
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