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title: Natural resources are useful things from nature, such as water, soil… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Natural resources are useful things from nature, such as water, soil, wood, fish, metals, oil and gas. Who acts: Natural resources. 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 clau
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# Resources and what countries trade, sentence 9

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Natural resources are useful things from nature, such as water, soil, wood, fish, metals, oil and gas.

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**Who acts:** Natural resources · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** useful things, nature

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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 (Natural resources), 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:9
# text = Natural resources are useful things from nature, such as water, soil, wood, fish, metals, oil and gas.
# 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
1	Natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Natural resources | useful things |  | nature and water and soil and wood and fish and metals and oil and gas |  |  | 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:9`.

**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. **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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