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title: Bronze is copper mixed with tin, and Cornish tin was traded across E… — Metals, mining and what they cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Bronze is copper mixed with tin, and Cornish tin was traded across Europe for thousands of years. A sentence of the lesson «Metals, mining and what they cost» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Metals, mining and what they cost, sentence 10

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Bronze is copper mixed with tin, and Cornish tin was traded across Europe for thousands of years.

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**What happens:** mix, trade · **To what, where:** Bronze, Cornish tin, Europe

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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: 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:10
# text = Bronze is copper mixed with tin, and Cornish tin was traded across Europe for thousands of years.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bronze	bronze	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	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Cornish	Cornish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod
10	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	traded	trade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **mix** | present · passive |  | Bronze |  |  |  | with tin; copper *obl:unmarked* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with tin=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **trade** | past · passive |  | Cornish tin |  | Europe |  | for thousands of years | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for thousand=Co-Theme |

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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:060-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost.lesson:10`.

**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): 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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