--- title: Plants take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen while they use sun… — The air we breathe · tree and pragmatics description: Plants take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen while they use sunlight to make sugar; tiny plants in the ocean are thought to make about half of the world's oxygen. Who acts: Plants. A sentence of the lesson «The air we breathe» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/16/) [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/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [The air we breathe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/) / 16 # The air we breathe, sentence 16 Plants take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen while they use sunlight to make sugar; tiny plants in the ocean are thought to make about half of the world's oxygen. **Who acts:** Plants · **What happens:** take in, give out, use, make, think · **To what, where:** carbon dioxide, oxygen, sunlight, sugar, tiny plants, half 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 (Plants), 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:16 # text = Plants take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen while they use sunlight to make sugar; tiny plants in the ocean are thought to make about half of the world's oxygen. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 13 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 16 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 18 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take in** | present | Plants | carbon dioxide | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Theme | | 2 | **give out** | present | Plants *not said here* | oxygen | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | | 3 | **use** | present | plants *= plant* | sunlight | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | plants *= plant* *not said here* | sugar | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sugar=Product | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive | | tiny plants in the ocean | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | | half of the world's oxygen | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset half=Product | 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. 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