Resources and what countries trade, sentence 2
Nature's useful things, its resources, are scattered unevenly: oil pools under a few regions, lithium and cobalt for phone batteries are dug in a few countries, rivers and good soil are where they are.
Who acts: rivers · What happens: scatter, dig, be · To what, where: useful things, lithium, few countries
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 (rivers), 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 | Nature | nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 things | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Nature | case |
| 3 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 resources | punct |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 resources | nmod:poss |
| 7 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 things | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 scattered | aux:pass |
| 10 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | unevenly | unevenly | ADV | _ | 10 scattered | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 pools | punct |
| 13 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pools | compound |
| 14 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 scattered | obl |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 regions | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 regions | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 regions | amod |
| 18 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pools | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lithium | punct |
| 20 | lithium | lithium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cobalt | cc |
| 22 | cobalt | cobalt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lithium | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 batteries | case |
| 24 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 batteries | compound |
| 25 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lithium | nmod |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 dug | aux:pass |
| 27 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 scattered | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 countries | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 countries | det |
| 30 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 countries | amod |
| 31 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 dug | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 where | punct |
| 33 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 where | nsubj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 soil | cc |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 soil | amod |
| 36 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rivers | conj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 where | cop |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 scattered | conj |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 are | nsubj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 where | cop |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | present · passive | Nature's useful things | oil pools under a few regions obl; unevenly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dig | present · passive | lithium for phone batteries and cobalt | a few countries | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | rivers and good soil | where property | 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:2.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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