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title: Metals usually come from ores, rocks containing enough metal to be w… — Metals, mining and what they cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Metals usually come from ores, rocks containing enough metal to be worth mining. Who acts: Metals, rocks. 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 8

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Metals usually come from ores, rocks containing enough metal to be worth mining.

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**Who acts:** Metals, rocks · **What happens:** come, contain, be · **To what, where:** ores, enough metal, worth mining

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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 (Metals, rocks), 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:8
# text = Metals usually come from ores, rocks containing enough metal to be worth mining.
# 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	Metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ores	ore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
8	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **come** | present | Metals |  |  | ores |  | usually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ore=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | rocks *not said here* | enough metal |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot metal=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | rocks *not said here* | worth mining |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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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