--- title: Air is full of tiny specks of dust, pollen and skin flakes; you see… — The air we breathe · tree and pragmatics description: Air is full of tiny specks of dust, pollen and skin flakes; you see them dancing in a sunbeam because they reflect light, and pollen makes people with hay fever sneeze. Who acts: Air, you, Fridges, pollen. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Air, you, Fridges, pollen), 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:19 # text = Air is full of tiny specks of dust, pollen and skin flakes; you see them dancing in a sunbeam because they reflect light, and pollen makes people with hay fever sneeze. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 specks speck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 flakes flake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 dancing dance VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:ccomp 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sunbeam sunbeam NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 reflect reflect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 25 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 sneeze sneeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is** | present | Air | | | | | of tiny specks of dust and pollen and skin flakes; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **dance** | gerund | Fridges *= fridge* | | | a sunbeam | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunbeam=Location | | 4 | **reflect** | present | Fridges *= fridge* | light | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present | pollen | people | | | | with hay fever | tree rules | | 6 | **sneeze** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:chemistry:033-the-air-we-breathe.lesson:19`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [The air we breathe, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/18/) - next →: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/)