Air and why we need it, sentence 17
Carbon dioxide in the air helps trap heat; more of it makes the Earth warmer.
Who acts: Carbon dioxide, more · What happens: help, trap, make · To what, where: heat, Earth
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 (Carbon dioxide, more), 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 | Carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dioxide | compound |
| 2 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 air | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dioxide | nmod |
| 6 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | trap | trap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helps | xcomp |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trap | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 more | punct |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 makes | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 more | nmod |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 helps | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Earth | det |
| 15 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 makes | obj |
| 16 | warmer | warmer | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 makes | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Carbon dioxide in the air | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | trap | infinitive | Carbon dioxide in the air not said here | heat | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | present | more of Air | the Earth | warmer property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset earth=Product |
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:17.
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 ×2. 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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