--- title: Some gems are not minerals: amber is fossil tree resin, sometimes wi… — Gemstones and precious metals · tree and pragmatics description: Some gems are not minerals: amber is fossil tree resin, sometimes with insects trapped inside, and pearls are made by oysters and mussels. Who acts: gems, amber, oysters. A sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 19 Some gems are not minerals: amber is fossil tree resin, sometimes with insects trapped inside, and pearls are made by oysters and mussels. **Who acts:** gems, amber, oysters · **What happens:** not be, be, trap, make · **To what, where:** minerals, fossil tree resin, insects, pearls 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 (gems, amber, oysters), 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:19 # text = Some gems are not minerals: amber is fossil tree resin, sometimes with insects trapped inside, and pearls are made by oysters and mussels. # 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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 gems gem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 amber amber NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 resin resin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 trapped trap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 inside inside ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 pearls pearl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 oysters oyster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 mussels mussel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **not** **is a** | present | some gems | minerals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | amber | fossil tree resin | | | | with insects | tree rules | | 3 | **trap** | participle | | insects *not said here* | | | | inside *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present · passive | oysters and mussels | pearls | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | 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:19`. **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: [Gemstones and precious metals, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/18/) - next →: [Gemstones and precious metals, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/)