--- title: Burning fossil fuels gives off carbon dioxide, the main cause of tod… — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics description: Burning fossil fuels gives off carbon dioxide, the main cause of today's global warming, and smoke that harms people's lungs. Who acts: Burning, smoke, today. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burning, smoke, 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:6 # text = Burning fossil fuels gives off carbon dioxide, the main cause of today's global warming, and smoke that harms people's lungs. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 fuels fuel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 global global ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 warming warming NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 harms harm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **give off** | present | Burning | carbon dioxide and smoke | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source dioxide=Theme | | 3 | **harm** | present | smoke | people's lungs | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lung=Experiencer | | 4 | **cause** | | | today's global warming | | | | | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **warm** | | today | | | | | | nom warming «process intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:6`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Coal, oil and gas, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/5/) - next →: [Coal, oil and gas, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/)