Air and why we need it, sentence 13
The air gets thinner the higher you go, so climbers on the highest mountains may carry oxygen.
Who acts: air, you, climbers · What happens: get, go, carry · To what, where: oxygen
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, you, climbers), 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 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 gets | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 higher | det |
| 6 | higher | high | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 go | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carry | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 carry | advmod |
| 11 | climbers | climber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 carry | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 mountains | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mountains | det |
| 14 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 mountains | amod |
| 15 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 climbers | nmod |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 carry | aux |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gets | parataxis |
| 18 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carry | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the air | thin property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | present | you | high property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | may | climbers on the highest mountains | oxygen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=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:world:017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.lesson:13.
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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