Metals, mining and what they cost, sentence 15
Some cobalt in batteries comes from small mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where children have been found working.
Who acts: cobalt, children · What happens: come, find, work · To what, where: small mines, children
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 (cobalt, children), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 cobalt | det |
| 2 | cobalt | cobalt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 batteries | case |
| 4 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cobalt | nmod |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 mines | case |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mines | amod |
| 8 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 comes | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Republic | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Republic | det |
| 11 | Democratic | Democratic | PROPN | _ | 12 Republic | compound |
| 12 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mines | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Congo | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Congo | det |
| 15 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Republic | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 found | advmod |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 found | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Republic | acl:relcl |
| 22 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 found | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | some cobalt in batteries | small mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mine=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | present · perfect · passive | children | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | work | gerund | children not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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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