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title: Later iron took over; with a little carbon it becomes steel, the mos… — Metals, mining and what they cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Later iron took over; with a little carbon it becomes steel, the most used metal material of all. Who acts: iron. 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 3

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Later iron took over; with a little carbon it becomes steel, the most used metal material of all.

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**Who acts:** iron · **What happens:** take over, become · **To what, where:** steel

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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 (iron), 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:3
# text = Later iron took over; with a little carbon it becomes steel, the most used metal material of all.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
2	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	used	used	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **take over** | past | iron |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | present | iron | steel |  |  |  | with a little carbon | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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: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): 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/).

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