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title: Only a tiny part of all the water on Earth is fresh water that peopl… — Natural resources and why we must save them · tree and pragmatics
description: Only a tiny part of all the water on Earth is fresh water that people can drink. Who acts: tiny part, people. A sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 14

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Only a tiny part of all the water on Earth is fresh water that people can drink.

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**Who acts:** tiny part, people · **What happens:** be, drink · **To what, where:** fresh water

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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 (tiny part, 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:14
# text = Only a tiny part of all the water on Earth is fresh water that people can drink.
# 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): no change
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is** | present | a tiny part of all water  Earth |  |  | fresh water |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** | can | people | fresh water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

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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:14`.

**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): no change. **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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