--- title: Cows burp methane, a strong warming gas; New Zealand planned to char… — Climate: hot summers and hot arguments · tree and pragmatics description: Cows burp methane, a strong warming gas; New Zealand planned to charge farmers for it, then delayed the plan after farmers objected, it was reported. Who acts: Cows, New Zealand, farmers. 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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 (Cows, New Zealand, farmers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:17 # text = Cows burp methane, a strong warming gas; New Zealand planned to charge farmers for it, then delayed the plan after farmers objected, it was reported. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 burp burp VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 methane methane NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 warming warming NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 11 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 planned plan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 charge charge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 then then ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 delayed delay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 after after SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 24 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 25 objected object VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burp** | present | Cows | methane | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **plan** | past | New Zealand | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **charge** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | New Zealand *not said here* | farmers | | | | for gas | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent farmer=Patient for it=Theme | | 4 | **delay** | past | New Zealand *not said here* | the plan | | | then | | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent plan=Source | | 5 | **object** *speech: other* | past | farmers | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **report** | past · passive | | plan | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:17`. **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, R6-punct-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. 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