The air we breathe, sentence 17
A few houseplants do very little to clean the air of a room; opening a window does far more.
What happens: clean, open · To what, where: air, window
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 houseplants | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 houseplants | amod |
| 3 | houseplants | houseplant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 little | aux |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 little | advmod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 clean | mark |
| 8 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 little | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clean | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 air | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 more | punct |
| 15 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 does | csubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opening | obj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 more | aux |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 little | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean | to-infinitive | the air of a room | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient | |||||
| 2 | open | gerund | a window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=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, 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:17.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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