--- title: The biggest force moving plates is slab pull: old, cold ocean plate… — Plate tectonics · tree and pragmatics description: The biggest force moving plates is slab pull: old, cold ocean plate is heavy and sinks into the mantle, dragging the rest behind it. Who acts: biggest force, old cold ocean plate. A sentence of the lesson «Plate tectonics» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/7/) [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/) / 7 # Plate tectonics, sentence 7 The biggest force moving plates is slab pull: old, cold ocean plate is heavy and sinks into the mantle, dragging the rest behind it. **Who acts:** biggest force, old cold ocean plate · **What happens:** move, be, sink, drag · **To what, where:** plates, slab pull, mantle, rest, force 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 (biggest force, old cold ocean plate), 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:7 # text = The biggest force moving plates is slab pull: old, cold ocean plate is heavy and sinks into the mantle, dragging the rest behind it. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 slab slab NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 dragging drag VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 behind behind ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | the biggest force *not said here* | plates | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | the biggest force | slab pull | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | old cold ocean plate | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **sink** | present | old cold ocean plate *not said here* | | | the mantle | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **drag** | gerund | old cold ocean plate *not said here* | the rest | | force | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | 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: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): R5-strong ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/6/) - next →: [Plate tectonics, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/)