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title: Bogs today show the first step: peat, partly rotted plants that peop… — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics
description: Bogs today show the first step: peat, partly rotted plants that people in Ireland and Scotland cut and burned on their fires. Who acts: Bogs, people. 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 cla
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# Coal, oil and gas, sentence 3

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Bogs today show the first step: peat, partly rotted plants that people in Ireland and Scotland cut and burned on their fires.

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**Who acts:** Bogs, people · **What happens:** show, rot, cut, burn, fire · **To what, where:** first step, rotted plants, fires

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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: who acts (Bogs, people), 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:3
# text = Bogs today show the first step: peat, partly rotted plants that people in Ireland and Scotland cut and burned on their fires.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bogs	bog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	peat	peat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
10	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	rotted	rot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:acl
12	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **show** | present | Bogs | the first step and peat |  |  | today |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent step=Recipient |
| 2 | **rot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | partly *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cut** | past | people in Ireland and Scotland | rotted plants |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Product |
| 4 | **burn** | past | people in Ireland and Scotland *not said here* |  |  | people's fires |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fire=Location |
| 5 | **fire** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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:059-coal-oil-and-gas.lesson:3`.

**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/).

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