Metals, mining and what they cost, sentence 13
Open-pit mines dig huge holes, some over a kilometre deep, and leave mountains of waste rock.
Who acts: pit mines · What happens: dig, leave · To what, where: huge holes, mountains
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 (pit mines), 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 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pit | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Open | punct |
| 3 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mines | compound |
| 4 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dig | nsubj |
| 5 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 holes | amod |
| 7 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dig | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 deep | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 deep | nsubj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 kilometre | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kilometre | det |
| 12 | kilometre | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 some | nmod |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 holes | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leave | cc |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dig | conj |
| 17 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 leave | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rock | case |
| 19 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rock | compound |
| 20 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mountains | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present | pit mines | huge holes | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | pit mines not said here | mountains of waste rock | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=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:060-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost.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): R5-strong ×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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