Air and why we need it, sentence 8

Air holds only a tiny amount of carbon dioxide, much less than one part in a hundred.

Who acts: Air · What happens: hold, amount · To what, where: tiny amount, 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), 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	2 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 amount	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 amount	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 amount	amod
6	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dioxide	case
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dioxide	compound
9	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 amount	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 less	punct
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 less	advmod
12	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 holds	advcl
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 part	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 part	nummod
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 less	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hundred	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hundred	det
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 part	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 holds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Air	a tiny amount of carbon dioxide					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme
2	amount			carbon dioxide					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:8.

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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