--- title: Carbon dioxide in the air helps trap heat; more of it makes the Eart… — Air and why we need it · tree and pragmatics description: Carbon dioxide in the air helps trap heat; more of it makes the Earth warmer. Who acts: Carbon dioxide, more. A sentence of the lesson «Air and why we need it» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Air and why we need it](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/) / 17 # Air and why we need it, sentence 17 Carbon dioxide in the air helps trap heat; more of it makes the Earth warmer. **Who acts:** Carbon dioxide, more · **What happens:** help, trap, make · **To what, where:** heat, Earth This is a sentence of the lesson «Air and why we need it» of the world 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 (Carbon dioxide, more), 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:17 # text = Carbon dioxide in the air helps trap heat; more of it makes the Earth warmer. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 trap trap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 warmer warmer ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | Carbon dioxide in the air | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **trap** | infinitive | Carbon dioxide in the air *not said here* | heat | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | more of Air | the Earth | | | | warmer *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset earth=Product | 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: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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Air and why we need it, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/16/) - next →: [Materials and their properties, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/)