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title: Burning them releases energy but also smoke and carbon dioxide, and… — Energy — where it comes from and how to save it · tree and pragmatics
description: Burning them releases energy but also smoke and carbon dioxide, and once used they are gone — they are non-renewable. Who acts: Burning, millions. A sentence of the lesson «Energy — where it comes from and how to save it» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Energy — where it comes from and how to save it, sentence 5

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Burning them releases energy but also smoke and carbon dioxide, and once used they are gone — they are non-renewable.

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**Who acts:** Burning, millions · **What happens:** burn, release, use, be · **To what, where:** millions, energy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy — where it comes from and how to save 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 (Burning, millions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:056-energy.lesson:5
# text = Burning them releases energy but also smoke and carbon dioxide, and once used they are gone — they are non-renewable.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 056-energy.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
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	releases	release	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod
14	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:aux:pass
17	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	non-renewable	non-renewable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund |  | millions *= million* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **release** | present | Burning | energy but smoke and carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer energy=Source |
| 3 | **use** | participle | millions *= million* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | millions *= million* |  |  |  |  | go *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | millions *= million* |  |  |  |  | non-renewable *property* | tree rules |

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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:056-energy.lesson:5`.

**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. **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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