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title: Peat is partly rotted plant matter in bogs, the first step towards c… — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics
description: Peat is partly rotted plant matter in bogs, the first step towards coal, and was burned for fuel in Ireland and Scotland. 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.
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# Coal, oil and gas, sentence 19

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Peat is partly rotted plant matter in bogs, the first step towards coal, and was burned for fuel in Ireland and Scotland.

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**What happens:** rot, burn · **To what, where:** Peat, Ireland

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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: 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:19
# text = Peat is partly rotted plant matter in bogs, the first step towards coal, and was burned for fuel in Ireland and Scotland.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Peat	peat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	rotted	rot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bogs	bog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
13	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rot** | present · passive |  | Peat |  |  |  | partly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | past · passive |  |  |  | Ireland and Scotland |  | for fuel | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: in ireland=Location |

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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:059-coal-oil-and-gas.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): R5-strong ×3, 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/).

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