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title: Most metals are dug out of rocks where they are joined to other elem… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics
description: Most metals are dug out of rocks where they are joined to other elements and must be separated, which costs energy and scars the land. A sentence of the lesson «Metals and what they're good for» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Metals and what they're good for, sentence 5

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Most metals are dug out of rocks where they are joined to other elements and must be separated, which costs energy and scars the land.

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**What happens:** dig out, join, separate, cost, scar · **To what, where:** Most metals, rocks, Metals, energy, land

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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: 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:5
# text = Most metals are dug out of rocks where they are joined to other elements and must be separated, which costs energy and scars the land.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	scars	scar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **dig out** | present · passive |  | Most metals |  | rocks |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary rock=Result |
| 2 | **join** | present · passive |  | Metals *= metal* |  |  |  | to other elements | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to element=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **separate** | must · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **cost** | present |  | energy |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme energy=Value |
| 5 | **scar** | present |  | the land |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent land=Destination |

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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:031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.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): 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.

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

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