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title: Nobody has ever been to the mantle or the core; we know about them b… — Inside the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody has ever been to the mantle or the core; we know about them by studying how earthquake waves travel through the Earth. Who acts: Nobody, we, earthquake waves. A sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Inside the Earth, sentence 11

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Nobody has ever been to the mantle or the core; we know about them by studying how earthquake waves travel through the Earth.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, we, earthquake waves · **What happens:** have, know, study, travel · **To what, where:** Earth

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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 (Nobody, we, earthquake waves), 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:11
# text = Nobody has ever been to the mantle or the core; we know about them by studying how earthquake waves travel through the Earth.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	aux	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	studying	study	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
20	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | participle | Nobody |  |  |  |  | to the mantle or the core | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** | present | we |  |  |  |  | about iron | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **study** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **travel** | present | earthquake waves |  |  | the Earth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through earth=Trajectory |

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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:11`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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