--- title: The higher you climb a mountain, the colder it gets and the thinner… — Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flyi… · tree and pragmatics description: The higher you climb a mountain, the colder it gets and the thinner the air becomes, so each breath brings less oxygen; climbers on Everest often carry bottles of oxygen. Who acts: you, mountain, air, breath. 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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 (you, mountain, air, breath), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:0 # text = The higher you climb a mountain, the colder it gets and the thinner the air becomes, so each breath brings less oxygen; climbers on Everest often carry bottles of oxygen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 higher high ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 colder cold ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 thinner thinner ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 23 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 26 climbers climber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Everest Everest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 often often ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 bottles bottle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | infinitive | you | a mountain | | | | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location mountain=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | mountain | | | | | cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **become** | present | the air | | | | | thinner *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **bring** | present | each breath | less oxygen | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | present | climbers on Everest | bottles of oxygen | | | | often *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=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](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:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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