--- title: Natural resources are the things people take from nature to live: wa… — Natural resources and why we must save them · tree and pragmatics description: Natural resources are the things people take from nature to live: water, air, soil, wood, fish, sunlight, wind, and things dug from the ground such as coal, oil, gas, iron ore and salt. Who acts: Natural resources, people. 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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 (Natural resources, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:047-natural-resources.lesson:0 # text = Natural resources are the things people take from nature to live: water, air, soil, wood, fish, sunlight, wind, and things dug from the ground such as coal, oil, gas, iron ore and salt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 047-natural-resources.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 resources resource NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nmod 33 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 35 case _ _ 34 as as ADP IN _ 33 fixed _ _ 35 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 ore ore NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:appos 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | Natural resources | the things | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | present | people | the things *not said here* | | nature | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from nature=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | water and air and soil and wood and fish and sunlight and wind | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dig** | participle · passive | | things | | the ground | | such coal and oil and gas and iron ore and salt | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from ground=Material | 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:world:047-natural-resources.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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: [Countries, peoples and languages of th…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/14/) - next →: [Natural resources and why we must save…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/)