Climate: hot summers and hot arguments, sentence 17

Cows burp methane, a strong warming gas; New Zealand planned to charge farmers for it, then delayed the plan after farmers objected, it was reported.

Who acts: Cows, New Zealand, farmers · What happens: burp, plan, charge, delay, object, report · To what, where: methane, farmers, plan

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 (Cows, New Zealand, farmers), 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	Cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burp	nsubj
2	burp	burp	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	methane	methane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burp	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gas	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gas	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gas	amod
7	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gas	compound
8	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 methane	appos
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 planned	punct
10	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Zealand	flat
11	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 planned	nsubj
12	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 burp	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 charge	mark
14	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 planned	xcomp
15	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 charge	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 charge	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 delayed	punct
19	then	then	ADV	_	20 delayed	advmod
20	delayed	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 planned	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 plan	det
22	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 delayed	obj
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	25 objected	mark
24	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 objected	nsubj
25	objected	object	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 delayed	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 burp	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 reported	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 reported	aux:pass
29	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 burp	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 reported	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	burp	present	Cows	methane			tree rules
2	plan	past	New Zealand				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	charge not said to happen	to-infinitive	New Zealand not said here	farmers		for gas	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent farmer=Patient for it=Theme
4	delay	past	New Zealand not said here	the plan	then		vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent plan=Source
5	object speech: other	past	farmers				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	report	past · passive		plan			vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:17.

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 ×3, R6-punct-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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