--- title: Climate change is a real, long-term problem; many scientists and gov… — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics description: Climate change is a real, long-term problem; many scientists and governments are working on it, and small actions add up. Who acts: Climate change, many scientists, small actions. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Climate change, many scientists, small actions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:22 # text = Climate change is a real, long-term problem; many scientists and governments are working on it, and small actions add up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:acl 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Climate change | a real term problem | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | present · progressive | many scientists and governments | | | | | on change | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme | | 3 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | small actions | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:22`. **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 ×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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