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title: Air can get dirty with smoke and fumes, and people have changed it:… — The air we breathe · tree and pragmatics
description: Air can get dirty with smoke and fumes, and people have changed it: we put holes in the ozone layer and are adding carbon dioxide. Who acts: Air, people, we. A sentence of the lesson «The air we breathe» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The air we breathe, sentence 5

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Air can get dirty with smoke and fumes, and people have changed it: we put holes in the ozone layer and are adding carbon dioxide.

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**Who acts:** Air, people, we · **What happens:** get, change, put, add · **To what, where:** air, holes, ozone layer, carbon dioxide

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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 (Air, people, we), 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:5
# text = Air can get dirty with smoke and fumes, and people have changed it: we put holes in the ozone layer and are adding carbon dioxide.
# 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	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fumes	fume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	ozone	ozone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
26	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **get** | can | Air |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **change** | present · perfect | people | air |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | past | we | holes |  | the ozone layer |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in layer=Destination |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | we *not said here* | carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=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:5`.

**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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