The air we breathe, sentence 7
Air is a mixture of gases; it takes up space and has weight, even though you cannot see it.
Who acts: Air, it, you · What happens: be, take up, have, not see · To what, where: mixture, space, weight, air
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, it, you), 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 | 4 mixture | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mixture | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mixture | det |
| 4 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gases | case |
| 6 | gases | gas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mixture | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 mixture | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 takes | nsubj |
| 9 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mixture | parataxis |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 takes | compound:prt |
| 11 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 takes | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 has | cc |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 takes | conj |
| 14 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 see | advmod |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 see | advmod |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 has | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mixture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Air | a mixture | of gases | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take up | present | it | space | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | weight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not see | can | you | air | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:7.
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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