Caring for the environment, sentence 3

Smoke from factories and cars dirties the air, waste and chemicals dirty rivers and seas, and litter harms the land and the animals that live on it.

Who acts: Smoke, chemicals, litter, animals · What happens: dirty, harm, live · To what, where: air, rivers, land, litter

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 (Smoke, chemicals, litter, animals), 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	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dirties	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 factories	case
3	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Smoke	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cars	cc
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 factories	conj
6	dirties	dirty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dirties	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waste	punct
10	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dirties	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 chemicals	cc
12	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dirty	nsubj
13	dirty	dirty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 waste	conj
14	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dirty	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seas	cc
16	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rivers	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 harms	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 harms	cc
19	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 harms	nsubj
20	harms	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dirties	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 land	det
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 harms	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 animals	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 animals	det
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 land	conj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 live	nsubj
27	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 animals	acl:relcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 live	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dirties	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dirty	present	Smoke from factories and cars	the air		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient
2	dirty	present	chemicals	rivers and seas		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent river=Patient
3	harm	present	litter	the land and the animals		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer
4	live	present	the animals		litter	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location

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:3.

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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