Metals, mining and what they cost, sentence 1

Rocks with enough metal in them to be worth digging are called ores, and smelting heats the ore with a fuel such as charcoal or coke to free the metal.

Who acts: smelting · What happens: be, dig, call, heat, free · To what, where: Rocks, ore, metal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Metals, mining and what they cost» 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 (smelting), 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	Rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 called	nsubj:pass
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 metal	case
3	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 metal	amod
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rocks	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 metal	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	9 worth	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 worth	cop
9	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 metal	acl
10	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 worth	xcomp
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 called	aux:pass
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	ores	ore	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 called	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heats	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smelting	cc
16	smelting	smelt	NOUN	_	17 heats	nsubj
17	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 called	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ore	det
19	ore	ore	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heats	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 fuel	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fuel	det
22	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heats	obl
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 charcoal	case
24	as	as	ADP	_	23 such	fixed
25	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fuel	nmod
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 coke	cc
27	coke	coke	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 charcoal	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 free	mark
29	free	free	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 heats	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 metal	det
31	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 free	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive			worth property	tree rules
2	dig	gerund				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	present · passive		Rocks with enough metal in them		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	heat	present	smelting	the ore	with a fuel such charcoal or coke	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ore=Patient with fuel=Instrument
5	free	to-infinitive	smelting not said here	the metal		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer metal=Source

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:060-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost.lesson:1.

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 ×2. 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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