--- title: Most of a tree is made from the air: it takes in carbon dioxide, kee… — Trees · tree and pragmatics description: Most of a tree is made from the air: it takes in carbon dioxide, keeps the carbon in its wood and gives out oxygen, which is why old forests matter so much for the climate. Who acts: it, oxygen, old forests. A sentence of the lesson «Trees» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Trees](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/) / 3 # Trees, sentence 3 Most of a tree is made from the air: it takes in carbon dioxide, keeps the carbon in its wood and gives out oxygen, which is why old forests matter so much for the climate. **Who acts:** it, oxygen, old forests · **What happens:** make, take, keep, give out, be, matter · **To what, where:** Most, air, carbon dioxide, carbon, wood, oxygen This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees» 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 (it, oxygen, old forests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:060-trees.lesson:3 # text = Most of a tree is made from the air: it takes in carbon dioxide, keeps the carbon in its wood and gives out oxygen, which is why old forests matter so much for the climate. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 060-trees.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 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 why why ADV WRB _ 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 much much ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | Most of a tree | | the air | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from air=Material | | 2 | **take** | present | it | | | carbon dioxide | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in dioxide=Location | | 3 | **keep** | present | | the carbon | | carbon's wood | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent carbon=Theme in wood=Location | | 4 | **give out** | present | | oxygen | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | oxygen | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **matter** | present | old forests | | | | | for the climate | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:060-trees.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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Trees, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/2/) - next →: [Trees, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/)