--- title: A gemstone is a stone people cut and polish because it is beautiful,… — Gemstones and precious metals · tree and pragmatics description: A gemstone is a stone people cut and polish because it is beautiful, rare and hard enough to last. Who acts: gemstone, people. A sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/0/) [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/) / [Gemstones and precious metals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/) / 0 # Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 0 A gemstone is a stone people cut and polish because it is beautiful, rare and hard enough to last. **Who acts:** gemstone, people · **What happens:** be, cut, polish, last · **To what, where:** stone This is a sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» 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 (gemstone, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.lesson:0 # text = A gemstone is a stone people cut and polish because it is beautiful, rare and hard enough to last. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gemstone gemstone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 polish polish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 18 enough enough ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | a gemstone | a stone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cut** | present | people | a stone *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Product | | 3 | **polish** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | gemstone | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | gemstone *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | gemstone *not said here* | | | | | enough *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **last** | to-infinitive | gemstone *not said here* | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | 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:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Minerals and crystals, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/16/) - next →: [Gemstones and precious metals, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/)