--- title: Others do not renew in a human lifetime: coal, oil and gas formed fr… — Natural resources and why we must save them · tree and pragmatics description: Others do not renew in a human lifetime: coal, oil and gas formed from plants and tiny sea creatures buried for millions of years, so once we burn them they are gone for good. Who acts: Others, we. 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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 (Others, we), 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:2 # text = Others do not renew in a human lifetime: coal, oil and gas formed from plants and tiny sea creatures buried for millions of years, so once we burn them they are gone for good. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 renew renew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lifetime lifetime NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 12 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj:pass 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 formed form VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 29 once once SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 burn burn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:aux:pass 35 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 good good NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **renew** | present · do-support | Others | | | a human lifetime | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **form** | participle | | coal and oil and gas *not said here* | | plants and tiny sea creatures | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bury** | participle | | plants and tiny sea creatures *not said here* | | | | for millions of years | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **burn** | present | we | Others *= other* | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | Others *= other* | | | | | for good; gone *property* | tree rules | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Natural resources and why we must save…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/1/) - next →: [Natural resources and why we must save…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/)