Resources and what countries trade, sentence 12

Much of the world's oil comes from a few places, such as the Middle East, the USA, Russia and Venezuela, because oil formed long ago from the remains of tiny sea creatures trapped under special rocks only in some places.

Who acts: Much, oil · What happens: come, form, trap · To what, where: few places, remains, tiny sea creatures, special rocks

This is a sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography 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 (Much, oil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 comes	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 oil	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oil	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 world	case
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Much	nmod
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 places	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 places	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 places	amod
11	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 comes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 East	punct
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	17 East	case
14	as	as	ADP	_	13 such	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 East	det
16	Middle	Middle	PROPN	_	17 East	flat
17	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 places	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 USA	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 USA	det
20	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 East	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Russia	punct
22	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 East	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Venezuela	cc
24	Venezuela	Venezuela	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 East	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 formed	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 formed	mark
27	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 formed	nsubj
28	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 comes	advcl
29	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 ago	advmod
30	ago	ago	ADV	_	28 formed	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 remains	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 remains	det
33	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	28 formed	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 creatures	case
35	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 creatures	amod
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 creatures	compound
37	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 remains	nmod
38	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 creatures	acl
39	under	under	ADP	_	41 rocks	case
40	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 rocks	amod
41	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 trapped	obl
42	only	only	ADV	_	45 places	advmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 places	case
44	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	45 places	det
45	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 trapped	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Much of the world's oil		a few places such the Middle East and the USA and Russia and Venezuela		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location
2	form	past	oil		the remains of tiny sea creatures	ago property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	trap	participle		tiny sea creatures not said here	special rocks	in some places	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under rock=Destination

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, 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:geography:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.lesson:12.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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