Metals, mining and what they cost, sentence 5
To get them, open-pit mines dig holes more than a kilometre deep and leave mountains of waste rock, and some mines poison rivers.
Who acts: pit mines, mines · What happens: get, dig, leave, poison · To what, where: dozens, holes, mountains, 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 (pit mines, 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dig | advcl |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 get | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pit | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
| 7 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mines | compound |
| 8 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dig | nsubj |
| 9 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dig | obj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 deep | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 more | fixed |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kilometre | det |
| 14 | kilometre | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deep | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 holes | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 leave | cc |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dig | conj |
| 18 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 leave | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rock | case |
| 20 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rock | compound |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mountains | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 poison | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 poison | cc |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 mines | det |
| 25 | mines | mines | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 poison | nsubj |
| 26 | poison | poison | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dig | conj |
| 27 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 poison | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | pit mines not said here | dozens = dozen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dig | present | pit mines | holes | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | pit mines not said here | mountains of waste rock | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | poison | present | some mines | rivers | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
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:5.
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. 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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