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title: Coal, oil and gas are fuels made from plants and tiny sea creatures… — Energy — where it comes from and how to save it · tree and pragmatics
description: Coal, oil and gas are fuels made from plants and tiny sea creatures that lived millions of years ago. Who acts: Coal, tiny sea creatures. A sentence of the lesson «Energy — where it comes from and how to save it» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Energy — where it comes from and how to save it, sentence 4

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Coal, oil and gas are fuels made from plants and tiny sea creatures that lived millions of years ago.

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**Who acts:** Coal, tiny sea creatures · **What happens:** be, make, live · **To what, where:** fuels, plants, millions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy — where it comes from and how to save it» 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 (Coal, tiny sea creatures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:056-energy.lesson:4
# text = Coal, oil and gas are fuels made from plants and tiny sea creatures that lived millions of years ago.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 056-energy.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=3:conj
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fuels	fuel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked
20	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | Coal and oil and gas | fuels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | fuels *not said here* |  | plants and tiny sea creatures |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from plant=Material |
| 3 | **live** | past | tiny sea creatures | millions of years |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme million=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:056-energy.lesson:4`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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