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title: Since the 1800s people have burned so much coal, oil and gas that th… — Weather, storms and the changing climate · tree and pragmatics
description: Since the 1800s people have burned so much coal, oil and gas that the blanket has thickened and Earth has warmed by about 1.3 degrees on average. Who acts: people, blanket, Earth. A sentence of the lesson «Weather, storms and the changing climate» of the geography course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Weather, storms and the changing climate, sentence 5

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Since the 1800s people have burned so much coal, oil and gas that the blanket has thickened and Earth has warmed by about 1.3 degrees on average.

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**Who acts:** people, blanket, Earth · **What happens:** burn, thicken, warm · **To what, where:** 1800s

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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 (people, blanket, 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:5
# text = Since the 1800s people have burned so much coal, oil and gas that the blanket has thickened and Earth has warmed by about 1.3 degrees on average.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
11	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	thickened	thicken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	warmed	warm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	1.3	1.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	26	nummod	_	_
26	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **burn** | present · perfect | people | the 1800s |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme |
| 2 | **thicken** | present · perfect | the blanket |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **warm** | present · perfect | Earth |  |  |  |  | by 1.3 degrees on average | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:geography:023-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/).

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