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title: It is wrapped in thick carbon dioxide air under clouds of sulphuric… — Venus · tree and pragmatics
description: It is wrapped in thick carbon dioxide air under clouds of sulphuric acid, and that blanket traps heat like a car parked in the sun with the windows shut. Who acts: blanket. A sentence of the lesson «Venus» of the space course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Venus, sentence 1

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It is wrapped in thick carbon dioxide air under clouds of sulphuric acid, and that blanket traps heat like a car parked in the sun with the windows shut.

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**Who acts:** blanket · **What happens:** wrap, trap, park, cloud · **To what, where:** planet, thick dioxide air, heat, car, sun, sulphuric acid

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Venus» of the space 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 (blanket), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:004-venus.lesson:1
# text = It is wrapped in thick carbon dioxide air under clouds of sulphuric acid, and that blanket traps heat like a car parked in the sun with the windows shut.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 004-venus.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 ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	sulphuric	sulphuric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	traps	trap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **wrap** | present · passive |  | planet |  | thick dioxide air |  | under clouds of sulphuric acid | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in air=Destination |
| 2 | **trap** | present | that blanket | heat |  |  |  | like a car | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient |
| 3 | **park** | participle |  | a car *not said here* |  | the sun |  | with the windows | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sun=Destination |
| 4 | **cloud** |  |  | sulphuric acid |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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:space:004-venus.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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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