Climate: hot summers and hot arguments, sentence 4
Most of the arguing is not about whether it is getting warmer but about what to do: how fast to change cars, power stations and farms, who pays, and what happens to people whose jobs depend on oil, gas and coal.
Who acts: Most, world, jobs · What happens: not be, get, do, change, pay, happen · To what, where: fast, cars
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 (Most, world, jobs), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 is | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 arguing | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 arguing | det |
| 4 | arguing | arguing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 is | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 11 getting | mark |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 getting | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 getting | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 getting | aux |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 is | obl |
| 12 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 getting | xcomp |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 14 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 getting | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 fast | punct |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 fast | advmod |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 do | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 change | mark |
| 22 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fast | xcomp |
| 23 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 change | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stations | punct |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stations | compound |
| 26 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cars | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 farms | cc |
| 28 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cars | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pays | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 pays | nsubj |
| 31 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 happens | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 happens | cc |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 happens | nsubj |
| 35 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 pays | ccomp |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 people | case |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 happens | obl |
| 38 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 39 jobs | nmod:poss |
| 39 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 depend | nsubj |
| 40 | depend | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 people | acl:relcl |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 oil | case |
| 42 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 depend | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 gas | punct |
| 44 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 oil | conj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 coal | cc |
| 46 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 oil | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Most | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | Most of the arguing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | present · progressive | world | warm property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | world not said here | fast | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | change | to-infinitive | world not said here | cars and power stations and farms | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient | ||||
| 5 | pay | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | happen | present | to people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | depend | present | jobs | on oil and gas and coal | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on oil=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:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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