Caring for the environment, sentence 18
Cutting down forests destroys habitats and removes trees that clean the air by taking in carbon dioxide.
Who acts: Cutting, trees · What happens: cut down, destroy, remove, clean, take in · To what, where: forests, habitats, trees, air, carbon dioxide
This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» 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 (Cutting, trees), 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 | Cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 destroys | csubj |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Cutting | compound:prt |
| 3 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cutting | obj |
| 4 | destroys | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | habitats | habitat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 destroys | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 removes | cc |
| 7 | removes | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 destroys | conj |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 removes | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 clean | nsubj |
| 10 | clean | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 trees | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clean | obj |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 taking | mark |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 clean | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 taking | compound:prt |
| 16 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dioxide | compound |
| 17 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 destroys | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut down | gerund | forests | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset forest=Product | |||||
| 2 | destroy | present | Cutting | habitats | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habitat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | remove | present | Cutting not said here | trees | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | clean | present | trees | the air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient | ||||
| 5 | take in | gerund | trees not said here | carbon dioxide | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=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:057-environment.lesson:18.
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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