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title: About 78 parts in 100 of air are nitrogen, about 21 are oxygen, and… — The air we breathe · tree and pragmatics
description: About 78 parts in 100 of air are nitrogen, about 21 are oxygen, and about 1 is other gases; carbon dioxide is only a tiny part. Who acts: 78 parts, 1, carbon dioxide. A sentence of the lesson «The air we breathe» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The air we breathe, sentence 8

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About 78 parts in 100 of air are nitrogen, about 21 are oxygen, and about 1 is other gases; carbon dioxide is only a tiny part.

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**Who acts:** 78 parts, 1, carbon dioxide · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** nitrogen, oxygen, other gases, tiny part

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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 (78 parts, 1, carbon dioxide), 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:8
# text = About 78 parts in 100 of air are nitrogen, about 21 are oxygen, and about 1 is other gases; carbon dioxide is only a tiny part.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	78	78	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nummod
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	amod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nummod
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gases	gas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | 78 parts  100 in air | nitrogen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | oxygen and nitrogen and other gases and a tiny part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | 1 | other gases |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | carbon dioxide | a tiny part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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