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title: Oil mattered little before the 1800s, when the main fuels were wood,… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Oil mattered little before the 1800s, when the main fuels were wood, charcoal and, later, coal. Who acts: Oil, main fuels. A sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Resources and what countries trade, sentence 13

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Oil mattered little before the 1800s, when the main fuels were wood, charcoal and, later, coal.

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**Who acts:** Oil, main fuels · **What happens:** matter, be · **To what, where:** wood

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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 (Oil, main fuels), 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:13
# text = Oil mattered little before the 1800s, when the main fuels were wood, charcoal and, later, coal.
# 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): no change
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mattered	matter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fuels	fuel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **matter** | past | Oil |  |  |  | before the 1800s | little *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the main fuels | wood and charcoal and coal |  |  |  |  | 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:geography:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.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): 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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