--- title: The air gets thinner the higher you go. — Wind and the air around the Earth · tree and pragmatics description: The air gets thinner the higher you go. Who acts: air, you. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/69-wind-and-the-atmosphere/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Wind and the air around the Earth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/69-wind-and-the-atmosphere/) / 9 # Wind and the air around the Earth, sentence 9 The air gets thinner the higher you go. **Who acts:** air, you · **What happens:** get, go 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 (air, you), 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:9 # text = The air gets thinner the higher you go. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thinner thinner ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 higher high ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | the air | | | | | thinner *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **go** | present | you | | | | | high *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [Wind and the air around the Earth, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/69-wind-and-the-atmosphere/8/) - next →: [Wind and the air around the Earth, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/69-wind-and-the-atmosphere/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/69-wind-and-the-atmosphere/)