--- title: Air is mostly nitrogen, which hardly reacts, with about a fifth oxyg… — The air we breathe · tree and pragmatics description: Air is mostly nitrogen, which hardly reacts, with about a fifth oxygen that we breathe, and tiny amounts of other gases such as carbon dioxide, which plants take in and which traps heat like a blanket. Who acts: Air, nitrogen, we, plants. A sentence of the lesson «The air we breathe» of the chemistr --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # The air we breathe, sentence 4 Air is mostly nitrogen, which hardly reacts, with about a fifth oxygen that we breathe, and tiny amounts of other gases such as carbon dioxide, which plants take in and which traps heat like a blanket. **Who acts:** Air, nitrogen, we, plants · **What happens:** be, react, breathe, take in, trap, amount · **To what, where:** nitrogen, fifth oxygen, carbon dioxide, heat, other gases 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 (Air, nitrogen, we, 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:4 # text = Air is mostly nitrogen, which hardly reacts, with about a fifth oxygen that we breathe, and tiny amounts of other gases such as carbon dioxide, which plants take in and which traps heat like a blanket. # 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): no change 1 Air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 nitrogen nitrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 reacts react VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 gases gas NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 28 case _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obj _ _ 31 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 in in ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 traps trap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 37 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 a** | present | Air | nitrogen | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **react** | present | nitrogen | | | | | with a fifth oxygen and tiny amounts of other gases such carbon dioxide; hardly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with oxygen=Eventuality | | 3 | **breathe** | present | we | a fifth oxygen and tiny amounts of other gases such carbon dioxide | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 4 | **take in** | present | plants | carbon dioxide | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 5 | **trap** | present | | heat | | | | like a blanket | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient | | 6 | **amount** | | | other gases such carbon dioxide | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [The air we breathe, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/3/) - next →: [The air we breathe, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/)