--- title: Coal, oil and gas are the remains of plants and tiny creatures that… — Energy: what makes things happen · tree and pragmatics description: Coal, oil and gas are the remains of plants and tiny creatures that caught sunlight millions of years ago. Who acts: Coal, plants. A sentence of the lesson «Energy: what makes things happen» of the physics 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/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/10/) [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/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Energy: what makes things happen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/) / 10 # Energy: what makes things happen, sentence 10 Coal, oil and gas are the remains of plants and tiny creatures that caught sunlight millions of years ago. **Who acts:** Coal, plants · **What happens:** be, catch · **To what, where:** remains, sunlight This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy: what makes things happen» of the physics 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 (Coal, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:031-energy-what-makes-things-happen.lesson:10 # text = Coal, oil and gas are the remains of plants and tiny creatures that caught sunlight millions of years ago. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 031-energy-what-makes-things-happen.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 3 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=3:conj 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 remains remains NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound 17 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 ago ago ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Coal and oil and gas | the remains | | | | of plants and tiny creatures | tree rules | | 2 | **catch** | past | plants and tiny creatures | sunlight | | | | millions of years *obl:unmarked*; ago *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=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:physics:031-energy-what-makes-things-happen.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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: [Energy: what makes things happen, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/9/) - next →: [Energy: what makes things happen, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/)