The air we breathe, sentence 9
Nitrogen hardly reacts, so crisp packets are filled with it to keep the crisps fresh.
Who acts: Nitrogen · What happens: react, fill, keep · To what, where: crisp packets, crisps
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 (Nitrogen), 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 | Nitrogen | nitrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reacts | nsubj |
| 2 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 3 reacts | advmod |
| 3 | reacts | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 filled | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 filled | advmod |
| 6 | crisp | crisp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 packets | amod |
| 7 | packets | packet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 filled | aux:pass |
| 9 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reacts | parataxis |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 filled | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 filled | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 crisps | det |
| 15 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reacts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | react | present | Nitrogen | hardly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fill | present · passive | crisp packets | with nitrogen | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with it=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the crisps | fresh property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=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:9.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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