--- title: Much of the world's oil comes from a few places, such as the Middle… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics description: Much of the world's oil comes from a few places, such as the Middle East, the USA, Russia and Venezuela, because oil formed long ago from the remains of tiny sea creatures trapped under special rocks only in some places. Who acts: Much, oil. A sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries tra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Resources and what countries trade](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/) / 12 # Resources and what countries trade, sentence 12 Much of the world's oil comes from a few places, such as the Middle East, the USA, Russia and Venezuela, because oil formed long ago from the remains of tiny sea creatures trapped under special rocks only in some places. **Who acts:** Much, oil · **What happens:** come, form, trap · **To what, where:** few places, remains, tiny sea creatures, special rocks This is a sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» 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 (Much, oil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.lesson:12 # text = Much of the world's oil comes from a few places, such as the Middle East, the USA, Russia and Venezuela, because oil formed long ago from the remains of tiny sea creatures trapped under special rocks only in some places. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:PronType=Ind 2 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 7 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 17 case _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Middle Middle PROPN NNP _ 17 flat _ _ 17 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Venezuela Venezuela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 formed form VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 29 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 30 ago ago ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 remains remains NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 28 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 38 trapped trap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 under under ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 42 only only ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 45 det _ _ 45 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nmod 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Much of the world's oil | | | a few places such the Middle East and the USA and Russia and Venezuela | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **form** | past | oil | | | the remains of tiny sea creatures | | ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **trap** | participle | | tiny sea creatures *not said here* | | special rocks | | in some places | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under rock=Destination | 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](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:geography:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.lesson:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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