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title: Ordinary air has so little carbon dioxide that pumping it in hardly… — Gases all around: breath and balloons · tree and pragmatics
description: Ordinary air has so little carbon dioxide that pumping it in hardly clouds the water. Who acts: Ordinary air, pumping. A sentence of the lesson «Gases all around: breath and balloons» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gases all around: breath and balloons, sentence 3

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Ordinary air has so little carbon dioxide that pumping it in hardly clouds the water.

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**Who acts:** Ordinary air, pumping · **What happens:** have, pump in, cloud · **To what, where:** little carbon dioxide, dioxide, water

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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 (Ordinary air, pumping), 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:3
# text = Ordinary air has so little carbon dioxide that pumping it in hardly clouds the water.
# 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): no change
1	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	pumping	pump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	clouds	cloud	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Ordinary air | little carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Patient |
| 2 | **pump in** | gerund |  | dioxide |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **cloud** | present | pumping | the water |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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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**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:chemistry:020-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons.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): 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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