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title: Some gases in the air, like carbon dioxide, act like a blanket and k… — Weather, storms and the changing climate · tree and pragmatics
description: Some gases in the air, like carbon dioxide, act like a blanket and keep Earth warm enough to live on. Who acts: gases, Earth. A sentence of the lesson «Weather, storms and the changing climate» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Weather, storms and the changing climate, sentence 4

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Some gases in the air, like carbon dioxide, act like a blanket and keep Earth warm enough to live on.

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**Who acts:** gases, Earth · **What happens:** act, keep, live on · **To what, where:** Earth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather, storms and the changing climate» of the geography 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 (gases, Earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.lesson:4
# text = Some gases in the air, like carbon dioxide, act like a blanket and keep Earth warm enough to live on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	gases	gas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	act	act	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
16	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **act** | present | some gases in the air like carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | like a blanket | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like blanket=Attribute |
| 2 | **keep** | present | some gases in the air like carbon dioxide *not said here* | Earth |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme |
| 3 | **live on** | to-infinitive | Earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:geography:023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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