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title: Scientists agree that humans are causing the warming; people still a… — Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists agree that humans are causing the warming; people still argue about how fast to change and who should pay. Who acts: Scientists, humans, people. 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 prima
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# Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 6

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Scientists agree that humans are causing the warming; people still argue about how fast to change and who should pay.

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**Who acts:** Scientists, humans, people · **What happens:** agree, cause, argue, change, pay · **To what, where:** warming · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Scientists, humans, people), 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:6
# text = Scientists agree that humans are causing the warming; people still argue about how fast to change and who should pay.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	warming	warming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cause** | present · progressive | humans | the warming |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition warming=Patient |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people |  |  |  | still |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **change** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pay** | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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