--- title: Open-pit mines dig huge holes, some over a kilometre deep, and leave… — Metals, mining and what they cost · tree and pragmatics description: Open-pit mines dig huge holes, some over a kilometre deep, and leave mountains of waste rock. Who acts: pit mines. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/13/) [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/) / [Metals, mining and what they cost](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/) / 13 # Metals, mining and what they cost, sentence 13 Open-pit mines dig huge holes, some over a kilometre deep, and leave mountains of waste rock. **Who acts:** pit mines · **What happens:** dig, leave · **To what, where:** huge holes, mountains 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 (pit mines), 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:13 # text = Open-pit mines dig huge holes, some over a kilometre deep, and leave mountains of waste rock. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 mines mine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 nsubj _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig** | present | pit mines | huge holes | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | present | pit mines *not said here* | mountains of waste rock | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | 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:060-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Metals, mining and what they cost, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/12/) - next →: [Metals, mining and what they cost, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/)