Coal, oil and gas, sentence 14
Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, the main cause of today's global warming.
Who acts: today · What happens: burn, release, cause, warm · To what, where: fossil fuels, carbon dioxide, global warming
This is a sentence of the lesson «Coal, oil and gas» of the geography 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 (today), 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 | Burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 releases | nsubj |
| 2 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fuels | compound |
| 3 | fuels | fuel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Burning | obj |
| 4 | releases | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dioxide | compound |
| 6 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 releases | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cause | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cause | det |
| 9 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cause | amod |
| 10 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dioxide | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 warming | case |
| 12 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 warming | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 today | case |
| 14 | global | global | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 warming | amod |
| 15 | warming | warming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cause | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 releases | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | fossil fuels | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme | |||||
| 2 | release | present | carbon dioxide | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer dioxide=Source | |||||
| 3 | cause | today's global warming | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | warm | today | nom warming «process intransitive»: poss=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:geography:059-coal-oil-and-gas.lesson:14.
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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