--- title: Oil spills poison seas and coasts and kill seabirds, fish and other… — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics description: Oil spills poison seas and coasts and kill seabirds, fish and other wildlife. Who acts: Oil spills. A sentence of the lesson «Coal, oil and gas» 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/59-coal-oil-and-gas/16/) [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/) / [Coal, oil and gas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/) / 16 # Coal, oil and gas, sentence 16 Oil spills poison seas and coasts and kill seabirds, fish and other wildlife. **Who acts:** Oil spills · **What happens:** poison, kill · **To what, where:** seas, seabirds This is a sentence of the lesson «Coal, oil and gas» 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 (Oil spills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:059-coal-oil-and-gas.lesson:16 # text = Oil spills poison seas and coasts and kill seabirds, fish and other wildlife. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 059-coal-oil-and-gas.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 spills spill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 poison poison VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 coasts coast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 8 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 seabirds seabird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 wildlife wildlife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 15 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **poison** | present | Oil spills | seas and coasts | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient | | 2 | **kill** | present | Oil spills *not said here* | seabirds and fish and other wildlife | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seabird=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:059-coal-oil-and-gas.lesson:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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: [Coal, oil and gas, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/15/) - next →: [Coal, oil and gas, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/)