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title: The skin is the crust we live on, the flesh is the mantle of hot roc… — Inside the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: The skin is the crust we live on, the flesh is the mantle of hot rock, and the stone is the core of iron and nickel, liquid outside and solid inside. Who acts: skin, we, flesh, stone. A sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Inside the Earth, sentence 1

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The skin is the crust we live on, the flesh is the mantle of hot rock, and the stone is the core of iron and nickel, liquid outside and solid inside.

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**Who acts:** skin, we, flesh, stone · **What happens:** be, live on · **To what, where:** crust, mantle, core

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» of the geography 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 (skin, we, flesh, stone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:041-inside-the-earth.lesson:1
# text = The skin is the crust we live on, the flesh is the mantle of hot rock, and the stone is the core of iron and nickel, liquid outside and solid inside.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 041-inside-the-earth.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	appos	_	_
31	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
34	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | the skin | the crust and the mantle and the core |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live on** | present | we | the crust and the mantle and the core *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme crust=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the flesh | the mantle |  |  |  | of hot rock | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the stone | the core |  |  |  | of iron and nickel | tree rules |

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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:geography:041-inside-the-earth.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): 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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