--- title: Diamonds and other gems have paid for wars, so "conflict diamonds" a… — Gemstones and precious metals · tree and pragmatics description: Diamonds and other gems have paid for wars, so "conflict diamonds" are now meant to be tracked to show where they came from. Who acts: gems. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gems), 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:20 # text = Diamonds and other gems have paid for wars, so "conflict diamonds" are now meant to be tracked to show where they came from. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 gems gem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 12 conflict conflict NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 16 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 18 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 tracked track VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 xcomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 25 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **pay** | present · perfect · passive | | Diamonds and other gems | | | | for wars | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for war=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present · passive | | conflict diamonds | | | now | | tree rules | | 3 | **track** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **show** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **come** | past | gems *= gem* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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:20`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/19/) - next →: [Weathering and erosion, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/52-weathering-and-erosion/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/)