Metals, mining and what they cost, sentence 14
Mining can poison rivers with acid and toxic metals such as mercury and arsenic.
Who acts: Mining · What happens: poison · To what, where: rivers
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 (Mining), 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 | Mining | mining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poison | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 poison | aux |
| 3 | poison | poison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poison | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 metals | case |
| 6 | acid | acid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 metals | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 toxic | cc |
| 8 | toxic | toxic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 acid | conj |
| 9 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poison | obl |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 mercury | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | mercury | mercury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 metals | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 arsenic | cc |
| 14 | arsenic | arsenic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mercury | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poison | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | can | Mining | rivers | with acid metals such mercury and arsenic | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent river=Patient with metal=Instrument |
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:14.
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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