Climate: hot summers and hot arguments, sentence 12

Hotter, drier years make bushfire seasons longer and fiercer, scientists said, and fire experts say clearing dry undergrowth matters too; both can be true at once.

Who acts: Hotter drier years, scientists, fire experts, clearing, both · What happens: make, say, clear, matter, be · To what, where: dry undergrowth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics 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 (Hotter drier years, scientists, fire experts, clearing), 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	Hotter	hotter	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 years	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hotter	punct
3	drier	drier	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
6	bushfire	bushfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seasons	compound
7	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 longer	obj
8	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 make	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fiercer	cc
10	fiercer	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 longer	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 experts	compound
17	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
19	clearing	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 matters	csubj
20	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 undergrowth	amod
21	undergrowth	undergrowth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clearing	obj
22	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 say	ccomp
23	too	too	ADV	_	22 matters	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 true	punct
25	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	28 true	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 true	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 true	cop
28	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 true	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Hotter drier years		long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	say speech: assert	past	scientists			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	fire experts			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	clear	gerund		dry undergrowth		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent undergrowth=Source
5	matter	present	clearing			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	can	both		true property	tree rules

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:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:12.

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): R5-strong ×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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