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title: The crust is only about 5-10 km thick under the oceans and about 30-… — Inside the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: The crust is only about 5-10 km thick under the oceans and about 30-70 km thick under the continents. Who acts: crust. 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 6

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The crust is only about 5-10 km thick under the oceans and about 30-70 km thick under the continents.

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**Who acts:** crust · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** oceans, 30-70 km, continents

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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 (crust), 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:6
# text = The crust is only about 5-10 km thick under the oceans and about 30-70 km thick under the continents.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	5-10	5-10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	oceans	ocean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
14	30-70	30-70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	continents	continent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** | present | the crust |  |  | the oceans |  | 5-10 km *obl:unmarked*; thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the crust *not said here* | 30-70 km |  | the continents |  |  | 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:6`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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