Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 20

Diamonds and other gems have paid for wars, so "conflict diamonds" are now meant to be tracked to show where they came from.

Who acts: gems · What happens: pay, mean, track, show, come · To what, where: Diamonds, conflict diamonds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» 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 (gems), 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	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 paid	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 gems	cc
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gems	amod
4	gems	gem	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Diamonds	conj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 paid	aux
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 wars	case
8	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 paid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 meant	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	17 meant	advmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 diamonds	punct
12	conflict	conflict	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 diamonds	compound
13	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 meant	nsubj:pass
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 diamonds	punct
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 meant	aux:pass
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 meant	advmod
17	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 paid	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	20 tracked	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 tracked	aux:pass
20	tracked	track	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 meant	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 show	mark
22	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tracked	advcl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 came	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 show	ccomp
26	from	from	ADP	_	25 came	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 paid	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · perfect · passive		Diamonds and other gems		for wars	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for war=Theme
2	mean	present · passive		conflict diamonds	now		tree rules
3	track not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive					vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»
4	show	to-infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	past	gems = gem				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.lesson:20.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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