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title: But the story of gems and metals also has a dark side: slaves, force… — Gemstones and precious metals · tree and pragmatics
description: But the story of gems and metals also has a dark side: slaves, forced miners and wars paid for with stones. Who acts: story. 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.
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# Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 8

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But the story of gems and metals also has a dark side: slaves, forced miners and wars paid for with stones.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** have, force, pay for · **To what, where:** dark side, wars

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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 (story), 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:8
# text = But the story of gems and metals also has a dark side: slaves, forced miners and wars paid for with stones.
# 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	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	miners	miner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the story of gems and metals | a dark side |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient |
| 2 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pay for** | participle |  | wars *not said here* |  |  |  | with stones | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.lesson:8`.

**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/).

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