Air and why we need it, sentence 0

Air is a mixture of gases: about four fifths is nitrogen, about one fifth is oxygen, and the rest is a little argon, a tiny amount of carbon dioxide and some water vapour.

Who acts: Air, one fifth, rest · What happens: be, amount · To what, where: mixture, nitrogen, oxygen, little argon, carbon dioxide

This is a sentence of the lesson «Air and why we need it» of the world 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 (Air, one fifth, rest), 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	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mixture	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mixture	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mixture	det
4	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gases	case
6	gases	gas	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mixture	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 fifths	punct
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 four	advmod
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 fifths	nummod
10	fifths	fifth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mixture	appos
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 nitrogen	cop
12	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fifths	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 oxygen	punct
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 fifth	nummod
16	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 oxygen	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 oxygen	cop
18	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fifths	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 argon	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 argon	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rest	det
22	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 argon	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 argon	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 argon	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 argon	amod
26	argon	argon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mixture	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 amount	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 amount	det
29	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 amount	amod
30	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 argon	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 dioxide	case
32	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dioxide	compound
33	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 amount	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 vapour	cc
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 vapour	det
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 vapour	compound
37	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dioxide	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mixture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Air	a mixture and a little argon	of gases	tree rules
2	is a	present		nitrogen		tree rules
3	is a	present	one fifth	oxygen		tree rules
4	is a	present	the rest	a little argon		tree rules
5	amount			carbon dioxide and some water vapour		nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:world:017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.lesson:0.

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, R7-rel-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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