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title: Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, the main cause of toda… — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics
description: Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, the main cause of today's global warming. Who acts: today. A sentence of the lesson «Coal, oil and gas» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Coal, oil and gas, sentence 14

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Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, the main cause of today's global warming.

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**Who acts:** today · **What happens:** burn, release, cause, warm · **To what, where:** fossil fuels, carbon dioxide, global warming

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coal, oil and gas» 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 (today), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:059-coal-oil-and-gas.lesson:14
# text = Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, the main cause of today's global warming.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 059-coal-oil-and-gas.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	Burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	nsubj	_	_
2	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fuels	fuel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	releases	release	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	warming	warming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **burn** | gerund |  | fossil fuels |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme |
| 2 | **release** | present |  | carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer dioxide=Source |
| 3 | **cause** |  |  | today's global warming |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **warm** |  | today |  |  |  |  |  | nom warming «process intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:059-coal-oil-and-gas.lesson:14`.

**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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