Phones and computer chips, sentence 13

Phones need metals like lithium, cobalt, copper and gold from mines in many countries; some mines have been unsafe or used child labour, so companies are pushed to check their suppliers.

Who acts: Phones, mines · What happens: need, be, use, push, check · To what, where: metals, child labour, companies, suppliers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» of the technology 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 (Phones, 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	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 lithium	case
5	lithium	lithium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 metals	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cobalt	punct
7	cobalt	cobalt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lithium	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 copper	punct
9	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lithium	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gold	cc
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 copper	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 mines	case
13	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 copper	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 countries	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 countries	amod
16	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mines	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 unsafe	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 mines	det
19	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 unsafe	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 unsafe	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 unsafe	cop
22	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 need	parataxis
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 used	cc
24	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 unsafe	conj
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 labour	compound
26	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 used	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pushed	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	31 pushed	advmod
29	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pushed	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pushed	aux:pass
31	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 unsafe	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 check	mark
33	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 pushed	advcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 suppliers	nmod:poss
35	suppliers	supplier	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 check	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	Phones	metals	like lithium and cobalt and copper from mines in many countries and gold	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot metal=Theme
2	is	present · perfect	some mines		unsafe property	tree rules
3	use	participle	some mines not said here	child labour		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=Patient
4	push	present · passive		companies		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	check	to-infinitive		metals's suppliers		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supplier=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:technology:009-phones-and-computer-chips.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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