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title: Every 1000 metres up the air gets about 6 to 7 degrees colder, and i… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics
description: Every 1000 metres up the air gets about 6 to 7 degrees colder, and it gets thinner, so each breath brings less oxygen and you puff and pant on the path. Who acts: air, breath, you. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 1

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Every 1000 metres up the air gets about 6 to 7 degrees colder, and it gets thinner, so each breath brings less oxygen and you puff and pant on the path.

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**Who acts:** air, breath, you · **What happens:** get about, get, bring, puff, pant · **To what, where:** 1000 metres, less oxygen, path

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» of the biology 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 (air, breath, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:1
# text = Every 1000 metres up the air gets about 6 to 7 degrees colder, and it gets thinner, so each breath brings less oxygen and you puff and pant on the path.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.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): no change
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	thinner	thinner	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	puff	puff	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	pant	pant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get about** | present | the air | every 1000 metres |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer degree=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | present | air |  |  |  |  | thinner *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bring** | present | each breath | less oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |
| 4 | **puff** | present | you |  |  | the path |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 5 | **pant** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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