--- title: Nature's useful things, its resources, are scattered unevenly: oil p… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics description: Nature's useful things, its resources, are scattered unevenly: oil pools under a few regions, lithium and cobalt for phone batteries are dug in a few countries, rivers and good soil are where they are. Who acts: rivers. A sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography c --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Resources and what countries trade, sentence 2 Nature's useful things, its resources, are scattered unevenly: oil pools under a few regions, lithium and cobalt for phone batteries are dug in a few countries, rivers and good soil are where they are. **Who acts:** rivers · **What happens:** scatter, dig, be · **To what, where:** useful things, lithium, few countries 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 (rivers), 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:2 # text = Nature's useful things, its resources, are scattered unevenly: oil pools under a few regions, lithium and cobalt for phone batteries are dug in a few countries, rivers and good soil are where they are. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Nature nature PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 resources resource NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 scattered scatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 unevenly unevenly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 pools pool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 under under ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 regions region NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 lithium lithium NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 cobalt cobalt NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 33 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 conj _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nsubj 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scatter** | present · passive | | Nature's useful things | | | | oil pools under a few regions *obl*; unevenly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **dig** | present · passive | | lithium for phone batteries and cobalt | | a few countries | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in country=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | rivers and good soil | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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