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title: There are real stories of fixing things together: countries agreed i… — Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are real stories of fixing things together: countries agreed in 1987 to ban the chemicals eating the ozone layer, and it is slowly healing; solar power became about ten times cheaper in ten years; vaccines for COVID-19 were ready within a year. Who acts: real stories, countries, chemicals, wor
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# Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 3

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There are real stories of fixing things together: countries agreed in 1987 to ban the chemicals eating the ozone layer, and it is slowly healing; solar power became about ten times cheaper in ten years; vaccines for COVID-19 were ready within a year.

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**Who acts:** real stories, countries, chemicals, world, solar power, vaccines · **What happens:** be, fix, agree, ban, eat, heal · **To what, where:** 1987, chemicals, ozone layer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history 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 (real stories, countries, chemicals, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson:3
# text = There are real stories of fixing things together: countries agreed in 1987 to ban the chemicals eating the ozone layer, and it is slowly healing; solar power became about ten times cheaper in ten years; vaccines for COVID-19 were ready within a year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.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
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1987	1987	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	ban	ban	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	ozone	ozone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	healing	heal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	about	about	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	xcomp	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	COVID	COVID	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	_
44	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	flat	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
47	within	within	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **does** | present | real stories of fixing things |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fix** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | countries |  |  | 1987 |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **ban** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | countries *not said here* | the chemicals |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer chemical=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund | the chemicals *not said here* | the ozone layer |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient |
| 6 | **heal** | present · progressive | world |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **become** | past | solar power |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | past | vaccines for COVID |  |  |  | year | ready *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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. **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.

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