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title: Where plates move apart, magma rises to fill the gap and makes new c… — Plate tectonics · tree and pragmatics
description: Where plates move apart, magma rises to fill the gap and makes new crust, as along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Who acts: plates, magma. A sentence of the lesson «Plate tectonics» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Plate tectonics, sentence 8

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Where plates move apart, magma rises to fill the gap and makes new crust, as along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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**Who acts:** plates, magma · **What happens:** move, rise, fill, make · **To what, where:** gap, new crust

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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, magma), 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:8
# text = Where plates move apart, magma rises to fill the gap and makes new crust, as along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advcl
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	magma	magma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	along	along	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Mid-Atlantic	Mid-Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Ridge	ridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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 | **move** | present | plates |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** | present | magma |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fill** | to-infinitive | magma *not said here* | the gap |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gap=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | present | magma *not said here* | new crust |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crust=Product |

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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:8`.

**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 ×3, 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/).

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