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title: The white cloud from a car exhaust on a cold morning is mostly water… — Gases all around: breath and balloons · tree and pragmatics
description: The white cloud from a car exhaust on a cold morning is mostly water vapour; burning petrol also makes carbon dioxide and some harmful gases. Who acts: white cloud. A sentence of the lesson «Gases all around: breath and balloons» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Gases all around: breath and balloons, sentence 15

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The white cloud from a car exhaust on a cold morning is mostly water vapour; burning petrol also makes carbon dioxide and some harmful gases.

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**Who acts:** white cloud · **What happens:** be, burn, make · **To what, where:** water vapour, petrol, carbon dioxide

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gases all around: breath and balloons» of the chemistry 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 (white cloud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:020-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons.lesson:15
# text = The white cloud from a car exhaust on a cold morning is mostly water vapour; burning petrol also makes carbon dioxide and some harmful gases.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 020-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	exhaust	exhaust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	nsubj	_	_
18	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gases	gas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the white cloud from a car exhaust on a cold morning | water vapour |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund |  | petrol |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent petrol=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present |  | carbon dioxide and some harmful gases |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dioxide=Product |

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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): R6-punct-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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