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title: Burning coal, oil and gas also puts smoke and carbon dioxide into th… — Natural resources and why we must save them · tree and pragmatics
description: Burning coal, oil and gas also puts smoke and carbon dioxide into the air, which dirties the air we breathe and warms the climate of the whole planet. Who acts: Burning coal, air, we, whole planet. A sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world course of Mova's p
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# Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 3

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Burning coal, oil and gas also puts smoke and carbon dioxide into the air, which dirties the air we breathe and warms the climate of the whole planet.

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**Who acts:** Burning coal, air, we, whole planet · **What happens:** burn, put, dirty, breathe, warm, acclimate · **To what, where:** smoke, air, 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 coal, air, we, whole planet), 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:3
# text = Burning coal, oil and gas also puts smoke and carbon dioxide into the air, which dirties the air we breathe and warms the climate of the whole planet.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dirties	dirty	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | present | Burning coal and oil and gas | smoke and carbon dioxide |  | the air |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent smoke=Goal |
| 3 | **dirty** | present | the air | the air |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 4 | **breathe** | present | we | the air *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 5 | **warm** | present | the air *not said here* | the climate of the whole planet |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent climate=Patient |
| 6 | **acclimate** |  | the whole planet |  |  |  |  |  | nom climate «state intransitive»: of=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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**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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