--- title: Coal, oil and natural gas are fossil fuels made from the remains of… — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics description: Coal, oil and natural gas are fossil fuels made from the remains of plants and tiny sea creatures buried millions of years ago. Who acts: Coal, tiny sea creatures. A sentence of the lesson «Coal, oil and gas» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Coal, oil and gas, sentence 8 Coal, oil and natural gas are fossil fuels made from the remains of plants and tiny sea creatures buried millions of years ago. **Who acts:** Coal, tiny sea creatures · **What happens:** be, make, bury · **To what, where:** fossil fuels, remains, millions 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 (Coal, tiny sea creatures), 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:8 # text = Coal, oil and natural gas are fossil fuels made from the remains of plants and tiny sea creatures buried millions of years ago. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 3 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=3:conj 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 fossil fossil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 fuels fuel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 remains remains NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 ago ago ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Coal and oil and natural gas | fossil fuels | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | fossil fuels *not said here* | | the remains of plants and tiny sea creatures | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from remains=Material | | 3 | **bury** | participle | tiny sea creatures *not said here* | millions of years | | | | ago *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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: [Coal, oil and gas, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/7/) - next →: [Coal, oil and gas, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/)