The air we breathe, sentence 15

Burning coal, oil and gas adds carbon dioxide to the air; carbon dioxide traps heat like a blanket, so even a small rise warms the planet.

Who acts: Burning coal, carbon dioxide, small rise · What happens: burn, add, trap, warm · To what, where: carbon dioxide, heat, planet

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 (Burning coal, carbon dioxide, small rise), 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	Burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 coal	amod
2	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adds	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 oil	punct
4	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coal	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gas	cc
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coal	conj
7	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dioxide	compound
9	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adds	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 air	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adds	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 traps	punct
14	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dioxide	compound
15	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 traps	nsubj
16	traps	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 adds	parataxis
17	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 traps	obj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 blanket	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 blanket	det
20	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heat	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 warms	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	27 warms	advmod
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 rise	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rise	det
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rise	amod
26	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 warms	nsubj
27	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 traps	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 planet	det
29	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 warms	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 adds	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	add speech: assert	present	Burning coal and oil and gas	carbon dioxide	to the air	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent dioxide=Patient to air=Co-Patient
3	trap	present	carbon dioxide	heat	like a blanket	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient
4	warm	present	a small rise	the planet		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent planet=Patient

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:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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