--- title: The mantle is about 2,900 km thick and is solid rock, but over milli… — Inside the Earth · tree and pragmatics description: The mantle is about 2,900 km thick and is solid rock, but over millions of years it slowly flows like very stiff putty; only small pockets of it melt into runny rock. Who acts: mantle, small pockets. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mantle, small pockets), 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:7 # text = The mantle is about 2,900 km thick and is solid rock, but over millions of years it slowly flows like very stiff putty; only small pockets of it melt into runny rock. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 2,900 2,900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 putty putty NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 pockets pocket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nmod _ _ 31 melt melt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 runny runny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the mantle | | | | | 2,900 km *obl:unmarked*; thick *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the mantle *not said here* | solid rock | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **flow** | present | mantle | | | millions of years | | like stiff putty; slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over million=Location | | 4 | **melt** | present | small pockets of mantle | | | runny rock | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into rock=Product | 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. **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:7`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Inside the Earth, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/6/) - next →: [Inside the Earth, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/)