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title: Some resources renew themselves: sunlight and wind come every day, a… — Natural resources and why we must save them · tree and pragmatics
description: Some resources renew themselves: sunlight and wind come every day, and a forest can grow back if people plant trees and cut no more than grows. Who acts: resources, sunlight, forest, people. A sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world course of Mova's primary 
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# Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 1

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Some resources renew themselves: sunlight and wind come every day, and a forest can grow back if people plant trees and cut no more than grows.

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**Who acts:** resources, sunlight, forest, people · **What happens:** renew, come, grow back, plant, cut, grow · **To what, where:** resources, trees, more

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world 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 (resources, sunlight, forest, 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:1
# text = Some resources renew themselves: sunlight and wind come every day, and a forest can grow back if people plant trees and cut no more than grows.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	renew	renew	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	plant	plant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
25	no	no	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	obj	_	_
27	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **renew** | present | some resources | resources *= resource* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | present | sunlight and wind |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow back** | can | a forest |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **plant** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | people | trees |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 5 | **cut** | present | people *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product |
| 6 | **grow** | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:world:047-natural-resources.lesson:1`.

**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): 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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