--- title: Phones need metals like lithium, cobalt, copper and gold from mines… — Phones and computer chips · tree and pragmatics description: Phones need metals like lithium, cobalt, copper and gold from mines in many countries; some mines have been unsafe or used child labour, so companies are pushed to check their suppliers. Who acts: Phones, mines. A sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» of the technology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/13/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Phones and computer chips](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/) / 13 # Phones and computer chips, sentence 13 Phones need metals like lithium, cobalt, copper and gold from mines in many countries; some mines have been unsafe or used child labour, so companies are pushed to check their suppliers. **Who acts:** Phones, mines · **What happens:** need, be, use, push, check · **To what, where:** metals, child labour, companies, suppliers This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones and computer chips» 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 (Phones, mines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:009-phones-and-computer-chips.lesson:13 # text = Phones need metals like lithium, cobalt, copper and gold from mines in many countries; some mines have been unsafe or used child labour, so companies are pushed to check their suppliers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 009-phones-and-computer-chips.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 lithium lithium NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 cobalt cobalt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 mines mine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 mines mine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 cop _ _ 22 unsafe unsafe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 29 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 suppliers supplier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Phones | metals | | | | like lithium and cobalt and copper from mines in many countries and gold | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot metal=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present · perfect | some mines | | | | | unsafe *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | participle | some mines *not said here* | child labour | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=Patient | | 4 | **push** | present · passive | | companies | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **check** | to-infinitive | | metals's suppliers | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supplier=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:technology:009-phones-and-computer-chips.lesson:13`. **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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Phones and computer chips, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/12/) - next →: [Phones and computer chips, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/9-phones-and-computer-chips/)