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title: Long ago aluminium was so hard to get out of rock that it was more p… — Elements and the famous members of the periodic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Long ago aluminium was so hard to get out of rock that it was more precious than gold. Who acts: aluminium. A sentence of the lesson «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Elements and the famous members of the periodic table, sentence 16

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Long ago aluminium was so hard to get out of rock that it was more precious than gold.

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**Who acts:** aluminium · **What happens:** be, get out · **To what, where:** rock

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» of the chemistry 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 (aluminium), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson:16
# text = Long ago aluminium was so hard to get out of rock that it was more precious than gold.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | aluminium |  |  |  |  | ago, hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get out** | to-infinitive | aluminium *not said here* | rock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | aluminium |  |  |  |  | than gold; precious *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chemistry:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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