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title: Burning fossil fuels pollutes the air and adds carbon dioxide, which… — Natural resources and why we must save them · tree and pragmatics
description: Burning fossil fuels pollutes the air and adds carbon dioxide, which warms the Earth's climate. Who acts: Burning, carbon dioxide, Earth. A sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 11

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Burning fossil fuels pollutes the air and adds carbon dioxide, which warms the Earth's climate.

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**Who acts:** Burning, carbon dioxide, Earth · **What happens:** burn, pollute, add, warm, acclimate · **To what, where:** fossil fuels, air, carbon dioxide, climate

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» 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 (Burning, carbon dioxide, Earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:047-natural-resources.lesson:11
# text = Burning fossil fuels pollutes the air and adds carbon dioxide, which warms the Earth's climate.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 047-natural-resources.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): no change
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fuels	fuel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	pollutes	pollute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **burn** | gerund |  | fossil fuels |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme |
| 2 | **pollute** | present | Burning | the air |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Burning *not said here* | carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Patient |
| 4 | **warm** | present | carbon dioxide | the Earth's climate |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent climate=Patient |
| 5 | **acclimate** |  | the Earth |  |  |  |  |  | nom climate «state intransitive»: poss=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:047-natural-resources.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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