Air and why we need it, sentence 4
The layer of air around the Earth, the atmosphere, also keeps us warm and protects us from harmful rays from the Sun.
Who acts: layer · What happens: keep, protect · To what, where: us
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 (layer), 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 layer | det |
| 2 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 air | case |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 layer | nmod |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 Earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Earth | det |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 air | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 atmosphere | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 atmosphere | det |
| 10 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Earth | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 layer | punct |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 keeps | advmod |
| 13 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 keeps | obj |
| 15 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 keeps | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 protects | cc |
| 17 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 keeps | conj |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 protects | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 rays | case |
| 20 | harmful | harmful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rays | amod |
| 21 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 protects | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Sun. | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sun. | det |
| 24 | Sun. | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 rays | nmod |
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 | keep | present | the layer of air around the Earth | us | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 2 | protect | present | the layer of air around the Earth not said here | us | from harmful rays from the Sun. | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary from ray=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:4.
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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