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title: The Earth is built in layers: a thin rocky crust, a thick hot mantle… — Inside the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth is built in layers: a thin rocky crust, a thick hot mantle, a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. A sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Inside the Earth, sentence 5

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The Earth is built in layers: a thin rocky crust, a thick hot mantle, a liquid outer core and a solid inner core.

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**What happens:** build · **To what, where:** Earth, layers

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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: 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:5
# text = The Earth is built in layers: a thin rocky crust, a thick hot mantle, a liquid outer core and a solid inner core.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **build** | present · passive |  | the Earth |  | layers |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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: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): 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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