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title: The deepest hole ever drilled, the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia… — Inside the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: The deepest hole ever drilled, the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, reached about 12 km, not even halfway through the continental crust there. Who acts: deepest hole. A sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Inside the Earth, sentence 13

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The deepest hole ever drilled, the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, reached about 12 km, not even halfway through the continental crust there.

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**Who acts:** deepest hole · **What happens:** drill, reach · **To what, where:** deepest hole, 12 km

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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 (deepest hole), 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:13
# text = The deepest hole ever drilled, the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, reached about 12 km, not even halfway through the continental crust there.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	drilled	drill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Kola	Kola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Superdeep	Superdeep	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Borehole	Borehole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **drill** | participle |  | the deepest hole *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the deepest hole | 12 km and the continental crust |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent km=Theme |

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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:13`.

**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): R8-pos-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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