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title: Mines are shafts and tunnels dug for coal, metals or salt; some gold… — Tunnels and what lies under the street · tree and pragmatics
description: Mines are shafts and tunnels dug for coal, metals or salt; some gold mines in South Africa go more than 3 km deep. Who acts: Mines, gold mines. A sentence of the lesson «Tunnels and what lies under the street» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Tunnels and what lies under the street, sentence 11

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Mines are shafts and tunnels dug for coal, metals or salt; some gold mines in South Africa go more than 3 km deep.

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**Who acts:** Mines, gold mines · **What happens:** be, dig, go · **To what, where:** shafts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tunnels and what lies under the street» of the technology 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 (Mines, gold mines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:11
# text = Mines are shafts and tunnels dug for coal, metals or salt; some gold mines in South Africa go more than 3 km deep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	shafts	shaft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
16	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
25	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mines | shafts and tunnels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dig** | participle |  | shafts and tunnels *not said here* |  |  |  | for coal and metals or salt | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for coal=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | some gold mines in South Africa |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:technology:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:11`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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