--- title: People and animals breathe in air and use its oxygen to release ener… — Air and why we need it · tree and pragmatics description: People and animals breathe in air and use its oxygen to release energy from their food; they breathe out air with less oxygen and more carbon dioxide. Who acts: People. 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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 (People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.lesson:1 # text = People and animals breathe in air and use its oxygen to release energy from their food; they breathe out air with less oxygen and more carbon dioxide. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 release release VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 13 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 27 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breathe** | present | People and animals | | | air | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **use** | present | People and animals *not said here* | Air's oxygen | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient | | 3 | **release** | to-infinitive | People and animals *not said here* | energy | | People's food | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer energy=Source | | 4 | **breathe out** | present | People | air | | | | with less oxygen and more carbon dioxide | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | 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:world:017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Air and why we need it, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/0/) - next →: [Air and why we need it, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/)