Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics, sentence 17
High on mountains each breath holds less oxygen, so climbers breathe harder.
Who acts: breath, climbers · What happens: hold, breathe · To what, where: less oxygen, mountains
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» 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 (breath, 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 | High | high | ADV | _ | 6 holds | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 mountains | case |
| 3 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 holds | obl |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 breath | det |
| 5 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holds | nsubj |
| 6 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 oxygen | amod |
| 8 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holds | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 breathe | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 breathe | advmod |
| 11 | climbers | climber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 breathe | nsubj |
| 12 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 holds | parataxis |
| 13 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 breathe | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | each breath | less oxygen | mountains | high property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme on mountain=Location | ||
| 2 | breathe | present | climbers | hard property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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