--- title: The strongest push comes from the edges: old, cold ocean plate is he… — Plate tectonics · tree and pragmatics description: The strongest push comes from the edges: old, cold ocean plate is heavy, sinks into the mantle and drags the rest of the plate behind it, like a tablecloth sliding off a table once enough of it hangs over the edge. Who acts: strongest push, old cold ocean plate, tablecloth, enough. A sentence of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Plate tectonics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/) / 2 # Plate tectonics, sentence 2 The strongest push comes from the edges: old, cold ocean plate is heavy, sinks into the mantle and drags the rest of the plate behind it, like a tablecloth sliding off a table once enough of it hangs over the edge. **Who acts:** strongest push, old cold ocean plate, tablecloth, enough · **What happens:** come, be, sink, drag, slide off, hang · **To what, where:** edges, mantle, rest, table, edge 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 (strongest push, old cold ocean plate, tablecloth, enough), 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:2 # text = The strongest push comes from the edges: old, cold ocean plate is heavy, sinks into the mantle and drags the rest of the plate behind it, like a tablecloth sliding off a table once enough of it hangs over the edge. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 drags drag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 behind behind ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 tablecloth tablecloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 34 sliding slide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 acl _ _ 35 off off ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 once once SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:obl 42 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 43 over over ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:nmod 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | the strongest push | | | the edges | | like a tablecloth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from edge=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is** | present | old cold ocean plate | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sink** | present | the strongest push *not said here* | | | the mantle | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **drag** | present | the strongest push *not said here* | the rest of the plate | | mantle | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | | 5 | **slide off** | gerund | a tablecloth *not said here* | a table | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme | | 6 | **hang** | present | enough of mantle | | | the edge | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over edge=Location | 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:042-plate-tectonics.lesson:2`. **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 ×3, 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: [Plate tectonics, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/1/) - next →: [Plate tectonics, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/)