--- title: Gold does not rust or tarnish and is soft enough to shape, so it has… — Gemstones and precious metals · tree and pragmatics description: Gold does not rust or tarnish and is soft enough to shape, so it has been treasured for thousands of years. Who acts: Gold. 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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 15 Gold does not rust or tarnish and is soft enough to shape, so it has been treasured for thousands of years. **Who acts:** Gold · **What happens:** not rust, tarnish, be, shape, treasure · **To what, where:** Gold 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 (Gold), 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:15 # text = Gold does not rust or tarnish and is soft enough to shape, so it has been treasured for thousands of years. # 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 Gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 rust rust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 tarnish tarnish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 10 enough enough ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 shape shape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 treasured treasure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **rust** | present · do-support | Gold | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **tarnish** | infinitive | Gold *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | Gold *not said here* | | | | | enough, soft *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **shape** | to-infinitive | Gold *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **treasure** | present · perfect · passive | | Gold | | | | for thousands of years | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus for thousand=Attribute | 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:15`. **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: [Gemstones and precious metals, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/14/) - next →: [Gemstones and precious metals, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/)