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title: Most metals come from rocks called ores, dug out by mining, and mini… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics
description: Most metals come from rocks called ores, dug out by mining, and mining can damage the land, which is one reason to recycle metals. Who acts: Most metals, rocks, mining, land. A sentence of the lesson «Metals and what they're good for» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Metals and what they're good for, sentence 17

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Most metals come from rocks called ores, dug out by mining, and mining can damage the land, which is one reason to recycle metals.

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**Who acts:** Most metals, rocks, mining, land · **What happens:** come, call, dig out, damage, be, recycle · **To what, where:** rocks, ores, land, one reason, metals · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Metals and what they're good for» 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 (Most metals, rocks, mining, land), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.lesson:17
# text = Most metals come from rocks called ores, dug out by mining, and mining can damage the land, which is one reason to recycle metals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	ores	ore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	recycle	recycle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Most metals |  |  | rocks |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from rock=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle | rocks *not said here* | ores |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ore=Recipient |
| 3 | **dig out** | participle |  | rocks *not said here* |  |  |  | by mining | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by mining=Location |
| 4 | **damage** | can | mining | the land |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the land | one reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **recycle** | to-infinitive | mining *not said here* | metals |  |  |  |  | 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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**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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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