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title: Trees take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen when they make food. — Trees and forests through the year · tree and pragmatics
description: Trees take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen when they make food. Who acts: Trees, leaves. A sentence of the lesson «Trees and forests through the year» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trees and forests through the year, sentence 14

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Trees take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen when they make food.

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**Who acts:** Trees, leaves · **What happens:** take, give out, make · **To what, where:** carbon dioxide, oxygen, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees and forests through the year» 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 (Trees, leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:076-trees-and-forests-through-the-year.lesson:14
# text = Trees take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen when they make food.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 076-trees-and-forests-through-the-year.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
9	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **take** | present | Trees |  |  | carbon dioxide |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in dioxide=Location |
| 2 | **give out** | present | Trees *not said here* | oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | leaves *= leaf* | food |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |

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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:076-trees-and-forests-through-the-year.lesson:14`.

**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): R8-pos-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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