--- title: To get them, open-pit mines dig holes more than a kilometre deep and… — Metals, mining and what they cost · tree and pragmatics description: To get them, open-pit mines dig holes more than a kilometre deep and leave mountains of waste rock, and some mines poison rivers. Who acts: pit mines, mines. 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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, 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:5 # text = To get them, open-pit mines dig holes more than a kilometre deep and leave mountains of waste rock, and some mines poison rivers. # 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 ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 mines mine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 mines mines NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 poison poison VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **get** | to-infinitive | pit mines *not said here* | dozens *= dozen* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 2 | **dig** | present | pit mines | holes | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | present | pit mines *not said here* | mountains of waste rock | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | | 4 | **poison** | present | some mines | rivers | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | 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. 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