Resources and what countries trade, sentence 13

Oil mattered little before the 1800s, when the main fuels were wood, charcoal and, later, coal.

Who acts: Oil, main fuels · What happens: matter, be · To what, where: wood

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 (Oil, main fuels), 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	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mattered	nsubj
2	mattered	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 mattered	advmod
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 1800s	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 1800s	det
6	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	2 mattered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wood	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 wood	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fuels	det
10	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fuels	amod
11	fuels	fuel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wood	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wood	cop
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mattered	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 charcoal	punct
15	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wood	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 coal	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 coal	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 later	punct
20	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wood	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mattered	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	past	Oil				before the 1800s	little property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past	the main fuels	wood and charcoal and coal					tree rules

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:13.

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.

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