Air and why we need it, sentence 9
We need oxygen to release energy from our food.
Who acts: We · What happens: need, release · To what, where: oxygen, energy, food
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 need | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 release | mark |
| 5 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 oxygen | acl |
| 6 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 release | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 food | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 food | nmod:poss |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 release | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | We | oxygen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot oxygen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | release | to-infinitive | We not said here | energy | our food | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer energy=Source |
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:9.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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