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title: Smoke from factories and cars dirties the air, waste and chemicals d… — Caring for the environment · tree and pragmatics
description: Smoke from factories and cars dirties the air, waste and chemicals dirty rivers and seas, and litter harms the land and the animals that live on it. Who acts: Smoke, chemicals, litter, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» of the world course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Caring for the environment, sentence 3

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Smoke from factories and cars dirties the air, waste and chemicals dirty rivers and seas, and litter harms the land and the animals that live on it.

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**Who acts:** Smoke, chemicals, litter, animals · **What happens:** dirty, harm, live · **To what, where:** air, rivers, land, litter

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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 (Smoke, chemicals, litter, animals), 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:3
# text = Smoke from factories and cars dirties the air, waste and chemicals dirty rivers and seas, and litter harms the land and the animals that live on it.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	dirties	dirty	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dirty	dirty	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	harms	harm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nmod
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **dirty** | present | Smoke from factories and cars | the air |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 2 | **dirty** | present | chemicals | rivers and seas |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
| 3 | **harm** | present | litter | the land and the animals |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer |
| 4 | **live** | present | the animals |  |  | litter |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location |

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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:3`.

**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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