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title: High on mountains each breath holds less oxygen, so climbers breathe… — Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics · tree and pragmatics
description: High on mountains each breath holds less oxygen, so climbers breathe harder. Who acts: breath, climbers. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics, sentence 17

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High on mountains each breath holds less oxygen, so climbers breathe harder.

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**Who acts:** breath, climbers · **What happens:** hold, breathe · **To what, where:** less oxygen, mountains

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» 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 (breath, climbers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.lesson:17
# text = High on mountains each breath holds less oxygen, so climbers breathe harder.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 040-body-and-physics-reasoning.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	High	high	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	climbers	climber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
13	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hold** | present | each breath | less oxygen |  | mountains |  | high *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme on mountain=Location |
| 2 | **breathe** | present | climbers |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: 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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**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:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.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): 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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