The environment, sentence 7
The earth is warming mainly because of human activity, such as burning coal, oil and gas.
Who acts: earth · What happens: warm, burn · To what, where: coal
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 (earth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 earth | det |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 warming | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 warming | aux |
| 4 | warming | warm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 4 warming | advmod |
| 6 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 9 activity | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 because | fixed |
| 8 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 activity | amod |
| 9 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 warming | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 burning | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 burning | mark |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 warming | conj |
| 14 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burning | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 oil | punct |
| 16 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coal | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gas | cc |
| 18 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coal | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 warming | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm | present · progressive | the earth | because human activity; mainly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | the earth not said here | coal and oil and gas | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=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:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.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): no change. 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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