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title: Where plates slide past each other sideways, crust is neither made n… — Plate tectonics · tree and pragmatics
description: Where plates slide past each other sideways, crust is neither made nor destroyed, but strong earthquakes happen, as along the San Andreas Fault in California. Who acts: plates, strong earthquakes. A sentence of the lesson «Plate tectonics» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Plate tectonics, sentence 11

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Where plates slide past each other sideways, crust is neither made nor destroyed, but strong earthquakes happen, as along the San Andreas Fault in California.

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**Who acts:** plates, strong earthquakes · **What happens:** slide, make, destroy, happen · **To what, where:** other sideways, crust, San Fault

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plate tectonics» 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 (plates, strong earthquakes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:042-plate-tectonics.lesson:11
# text = Where plates slide past each other sideways, crust is neither made nor destroyed, but strong earthquakes happen, as along the San Andreas Fault in California.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 042-plate-tectonics.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	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slide	slide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sideways	sideways	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	along	along	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	Andreas	Andreas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	Fault	fault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide** | present | plates |  |  | each other sideways |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past sideways=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | crust |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **destroy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **happen** | present | strong earthquakes |  |  | the San Fault in California |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along fault=Location |

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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:042-plate-tectonics.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): 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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