The environment, sentence 16
Walking or cycling instead of taking the car takes longer but harms the air and climate less.
Who acts: Walking · What happens: take, harm · To what, where: car, air
This is a sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion ethics 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 (Walking), 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 | Walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 cycling | cc |
| 3 | cycling | cycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | conj |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 6 taking | mark |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 instead | fixed |
| 6 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Walking | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 car | det |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taking | obj |
| 9 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 takes | advmod |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 harms | cc |
| 12 | harms | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 takes | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 harms | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 climate | cc |
| 16 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 air | conj |
| 17 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 harms | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Walking or cycling not said here | the car | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | present | Walking or cycling | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | harm | present | Walking or cycling not said here | the air and climate | less property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus air=Experiencer |
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:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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