---
title: France is ranked 19th by carbon dioxide emissions due to the country… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: France is ranked 19th by carbon dioxide emissions due to the country's heavy investment in nuclear power following the 1973 oil crisis, which now accounts for 75 per cent of its electricity production and results in less pollution. Who acts: dioxide emissions, nuclear power, 1973 oil crisis, country
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/237/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [France](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/) / 237

# France, sentence 237

<!-- div src -->

From Wikipedia, [«France»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
France is ranked 19th by carbon dioxide emissions due to the country's heavy investment in nuclear power following the 1973 oil crisis, which now accounts for 75 per cent of its electricity production and results in less pollution.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** dioxide emissions, nuclear power, 1973 oil crisis, country · **What happens:** rank, follow, account, invest, produce · **To what, where:** France, 1973 oil crisis, nuclear power

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «France». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dioxide emissions, nuclear power, 1973 oil crisis, country), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:France:237
# text = France is ranked 19th by carbon dioxide emissions due to the country's heavy investment in nuclear power following the 1973 oil crisis, which now accounts for 75 per cent of its electricity production and results in less pollution.
1	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	xcomp	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	emissions	emission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	nuclear	nuclear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
22	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	pollution	pollution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | present · passive | dioxide emissions | France |  |  |  | due the country's heavy investment in nuclear power; 19th *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | nuclear power *not said here* | the 1973 oil crisis and accounts |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisis=Theme |
| 3 | **account** |  | the 1973 oil crisis and accounts |  |  |  | now | for 75 per cent of country's electricity production and results in less pollution | tree rules |
| 4 | **invest** |  | the country |  |  | nuclear power |  |  | nom investment «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
| 5 | **produce** |  | country |  |  |  |  |  | nom production «act transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «France», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 236](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/236/)
- next →: [sentence 238](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/238/)
- ↑ back to [France](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/)