The air we breathe, sentence 19

Air is full of tiny specks of dust, pollen and skin flakes; you see them dancing in a sunbeam because they reflect light, and pollen makes people with hay fever sneeze.

Who acts: Air, you, Fridges, pollen, people · What happens: be, see, dance, reflect, make, sneeze · To what, where: sunbeam, light, people

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 (Air, you, Fridges, pollen), 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	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 specks	case
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 specks	amod
6	specks	speck	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 dust	case
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 specks	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pollen	punct
10	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dust	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flakes	cc
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flakes	compound
13	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 specks	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	parataxis
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dancing	nsubj
18	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 see	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sunbeam	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sunbeam	det
21	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dancing	obl
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 reflect	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reflect	nsubj
24	reflect	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 dancing	advcl
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reflect	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 makes	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 makes	cc
28	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 makes	nsubj
29	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 reflect	conj
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 makes	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 fever	case
32	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fever	compound
33	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 people	nmod
34	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 makes	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 full	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Air			of tiny specks of dust and pollen and skin flakes; full property	tree rules
2	see	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	dance	gerund	Fridges = fridge		a sunbeam		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunbeam=Location
4	reflect	present	Fridges = fridge	light			tree rules
5	make	present	pollen	people		with hay fever	tree rules
6	sneeze	infinitive	people not said here				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:19.

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, 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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