--- title: Lithium and cobalt, needed for batteries in phones and electric cars… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics description: Lithium and cobalt, needed for batteries in phones and electric cars, are mined in a few countries such as Australia, Chile and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 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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:geography:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.lesson:14 # text = Lithium and cobalt, needed for batteries in phones and electric cars, are mined in a few countries such as Australia, Chile and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. # 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 Lithium lithium NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 cobalt cobalt NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 mined mine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 22 case _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Chile Chile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Democratic Democratic PROPN NNP _ 28 compound _ _ 28 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Congo Congo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | participle | | Lithium and cobalt *not said here* | | | | for batteries in phones and electric cars | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **mine** | present · passive | | Lithium and cobalt | | a few countries such Australia and Chile and the Democratic Republic of the Congo | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in country=Location | 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:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [Resources and what countries trade, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/13/) - next →: [Resources and what countries trade, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/)