The air we breathe, sentence 6
Yet when the world agreed to act, the ozone layer began to heal.
Who acts: world, ozone layer · What happens: agree, act, begin, heal
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 (world, ozone layer), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 agreed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreed | nsubj |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 began | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 act | mark |
| 7 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 agreed | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 layer | det |
| 10 | ozone | ozone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 layer | compound |
| 11 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 heal | mark |
| 14 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the world | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | act not said to happen | to-infinitive | the world not said here | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the ozone layer | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | heal | to-infinitive | the ozone layer not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:6.
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.
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