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title: Cutting down forests destroys habitats and removes trees that clean… — Caring for the environment · tree and pragmatics
description: Cutting down forests destroys habitats and removes trees that clean the air by taking in carbon dioxide. Who acts: Cutting, trees. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Caring for the environment, sentence 18

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Cutting down forests destroys habitats and removes trees that clean the air by taking in carbon dioxide.

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**Who acts:** Cutting, trees · **What happens:** cut down, destroy, remove, clean, take in · **To what, where:** forests, habitats, trees, air, carbon dioxide

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» 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 (Cutting, trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:057-environment.lesson:18
# text = Cutting down forests destroys habitats and removes trees that clean the air by taking in carbon dioxide.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 057-environment.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	Cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	destroys	destroy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	habitats	habitat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	removes	remove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	clean	clean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	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 | **cut down** | gerund |  | forests |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset forest=Product |
| 2 | **destroy** | present | Cutting | habitats |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habitat=Patient |
| 3 | **remove** | present | Cutting *not said here* | trees |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 4 | **clean** | present | trees | the air |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 5 | **take in** | gerund | trees *not said here* | carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Theme |

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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:057-environment.lesson:18`.

**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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