Wind and the air around the Earth, sentence 4

Higher up, in the stratosphere, there is a layer of a gas called ozone that soaks up much of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet light.

Who acts: layer, gas, ozone, Sun · What happens: be, call, soak up, light · To what, where: stratosphere, ozone, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind and the air around the Earth» 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 (layer, gas, ozone, Sun), 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	Higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 is	advmod
2	up	up	ADV	_	9 is	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 stratosphere	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stratosphere	det
6	stratosphere	stratosphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stratosphere	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 layer	det
11	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 gas	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 gas	det
14	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 layer	nmod
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 gas	acl
16	ozone	ozone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 soaks	nsubj
18	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ozone	acl:relcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 soaks	compound:prt
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 soaks	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	27 light	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Sun	det
23	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 light	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Sun	case
25	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 light	amod
26	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 light	amod
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 much	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a layer of a gas		the stratosphere; there	high property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stratosphere=Location
2	call	participle	a gas not said here	ozone			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	soak up	present	ozone	much of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet light			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent much=Source
4	light		the Sun				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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:069-wind-and-the-atmosphere.lesson:4.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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