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title: Rocks with enough metal in them to be worth digging are called ores,… — Metals, mining and what they cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Rocks with enough metal in them to be worth digging are called ores, and smelting heats the ore with a fuel such as charcoal or coke to free the metal. Who acts: smelting. A sentence of the lesson «Metals, mining and what they cost» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Metals, mining and what they cost, sentence 1

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Rocks with enough metal in them to be worth digging are called ores, and smelting heats the ore with a fuel such as charcoal or coke to free the metal.

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**Who acts:** smelting · **What happens:** be, dig, call, heat, free · **To what, where:** Rocks, ore, metal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Metals, mining and what they cost» 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 (smelting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:060-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost.lesson:1
# text = Rocks with enough metal in them to be worth digging are called ores, and smelting heats the ore with a fuel such as charcoal or coke to free the metal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 060-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost.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 ×2
1	Rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl	_	_
10	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	ores	ore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	smelting	smelt	NOUN	NN	_	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heats	heat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ore	ore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	coke	coke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	free	free	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
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## 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 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dig** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | Rocks with enough metal in them |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **heat** | present | smelting | the ore |  |  |  | with a fuel such charcoal or coke | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ore=Patient with fuel=Instrument |
| 5 | **free** | to-infinitive | smelting *not said here* | the metal |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer metal=Source |

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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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**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 ×2. **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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