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title: Natural resources are materials and energy that people take from nat… — Natural resources and why we must save them · tree and pragmatics
description: Natural resources are materials and energy that people take from nature. Who acts: Natural resources, 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 5

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Natural resources are materials and energy that people take from nature.

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**Who acts:** Natural resources, people · **What happens:** be, take · **To what, where:** materials, nature

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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 (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:5
# text = Natural resources are materials and energy that people take from nature.
# 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
1	Natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 a** | present | Natural resources | materials and energy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | people | materials and energy |  | nature |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent that=Theme from nature=Initial\_Location |

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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:5`.

**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. **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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