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title: Burning coal and oil also pollutes the air with soot and gases that… — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics
description: Burning coal and oil also pollutes the air with soot and gases that cause millions of early deaths each year. Who acts: soot. 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 15

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Burning coal and oil also pollutes the air with soot and gases that cause millions of early deaths each year.

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**Who acts:** soot · **What happens:** burn, pollute, cause · **To what, where:** coal, air, millions

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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 (soot), 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:15
# text = Burning coal and oil also pollutes the air with soot and gases that cause millions of early deaths each year.
# 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): R5-strong ×3
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	nsubj	_	_
2	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pollutes	pollute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gases	gas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl
15	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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** | gerund |  | coal and oil |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme |
| 2 | **pollute** | present |  | the air |  |  |  | with soot and gases | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | present | soot and gases | millions of early deaths |  |  | year |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition million=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:059-coal-oil-and-gas.lesson:15`.

**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 ×3. **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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