Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 11
Burning fossil fuels pollutes the air and adds carbon dioxide, which warms the Earth's climate.
Who acts: Burning, carbon dioxide, Earth · What happens: burn, pollute, add, warm, acclimate · To what, where: fossil fuels, air, carbon dioxide, climate
This is a sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» 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 (Burning, carbon dioxide, Earth), 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 | Burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 pollutes | csubj |
| 2 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fuels | compound |
| 3 | fuels | fuel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Burning | obj |
| 4 | pollutes | pollute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pollutes | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 adds | cc |
| 8 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pollutes | conj |
| 9 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dioxide | compound |
| 10 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 adds | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 warms | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 warms | nsubj |
| 13 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dioxide | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Earth | det |
| 15 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 climate | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Earth | case |
| 17 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 warms | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pollutes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | fossil fuels | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pollute | present | Burning | the air | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | present | Burning not said here | carbon dioxide | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Patient | ||||
| 4 | warm | present | carbon dioxide | the Earth's climate | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent climate=Patient | ||||
| 5 | acclimate | the Earth | nom climate «state intransitive»: poss=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:047-natural-resources.lesson:11.
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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