Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 7

In 1987 countries agreed in the Montreal Protocol to ban chemicals that damaged the ozone layer, and the ozone layer is slowly healing.

Who acts: countries, chemicals, ozone layer · What happens: agree, ban, damage, heal · To what, where: 1987, chemicals, ozone layer

This is a sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history 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 (countries, chemicals, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1987	case
2	1987	1987	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 agreed	obl
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 agreed	nsubj
4	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 Protocol	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Protocol	det
7	Montreal	Montreal	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Protocol	compound
8	Protocol	protocol	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 agreed	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ban	mark
10	ban	ban	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 agreed	advcl
11	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ban	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 damaged	nsubj
13	damaged	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chemicals	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 layer	det
15	ozone	ozone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 layer	compound
16	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 damaged	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 healing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 healing	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 layer	det
20	ozone	ozone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 layer	compound
21	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 healing	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 healing	aux
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	24 healing	advmod
24	healing	heal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 agreed	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	countries		1987	in the Montreal Protocol	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ban	to-infinitive	countries not said here	chemicals			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer chemical=Theme
3	damage	past	chemicals	the ozone layer			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient
4	heal	present · progressive	the ozone layer			slowly property	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:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.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): R8-pos-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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