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title: Higher up, in the stratosphere, there is a layer of a gas called ozo… — Wind and the air around the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: Higher up, in the stratosphere, there is a layer of a gas called ozone that soaks up much of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet light. Who acts: layer, gas, ozone, Sun. A sentence of the lesson «Wind and the air around the Earth» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Wind and the air around the Earth, sentence 4

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Higher up, in the stratosphere, there is a layer of a gas called ozone that soaks up much of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet light.

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**Who acts:** layer, gas, ozone, Sun · **What happens:** be, call, soak up, light · **To what, where:** stratosphere, ozone, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind and the air around the Earth» 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 (layer, gas, ozone, Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:069-wind-and-the-atmosphere.lesson:4
# text = Higher up, in the stratosphere, there is a layer of a gas called ozone that soaks up much of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet light.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 069-wind-and-the-atmosphere.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Higher	high	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stratosphere	stratosphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	ozone	ozone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	soaks	soak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **be** | present | a layer of a gas |  |  | the stratosphere; there |  | high *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stratosphere=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a gas *not said here* | ozone |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **soak up** | present | ozone | much of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet light |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent much=Source |
| 4 | **light** |  | the Sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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:069-wind-and-the-atmosphere.lesson:4`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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