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title: Burning coal, oil and gas adds carbon dioxide to the air; carbon dio… — The air we breathe · tree and pragmatics
description: Burning coal, oil and gas adds carbon dioxide to the air; carbon dioxide traps heat like a blanket, so even a small rise warms the planet. Who acts: Burning coal, carbon dioxide, small rise. A sentence of the lesson «The air we breathe» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# The air we breathe, sentence 15

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Burning coal, oil and gas adds carbon dioxide to the air; carbon dioxide traps heat like a blanket, so even a small rise warms the planet.

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**Who acts:** Burning coal, carbon dioxide, small rise · **What happens:** burn, add, trap, warm · **To what, where:** carbon dioxide, heat, planet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The air we breathe» 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 (Burning coal, carbon dioxide, small rise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:033-the-air-we-breathe.lesson:15
# text = Burning coal, oil and gas adds carbon dioxide to the air; carbon dioxide traps heat like a blanket, so even a small rise warms the planet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 033-the-air-we-breathe.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
14	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	traps	trap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
17	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Burning coal and oil and gas | carbon dioxide |  |  |  | to the air | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent dioxide=Patient to air=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **trap** | present | carbon dioxide | heat |  |  |  | like a blanket | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient |
| 4 | **warm** | present | a small rise | the planet |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent planet=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:033-the-air-we-breathe.lesson:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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

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