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title: Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with volcanic heat close to… — Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes · tree and pragmatics
description: Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with volcanic heat close to the surface, and it uses this heat to make electricity and to heat almost all its homes. Who acts: Iceland, surface. A sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» of the geography course of Mova's primary sch
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# Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 13

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Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with volcanic heat close to the surface, and it uses this heat to make electricity and to heat almost all its homes.

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**Who acts:** Iceland, surface · **What happens:** sit, use, make, heat · **To what, where:** Mid-Atlantic Ridge, heat, electricity, homes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» 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 (Iceland, surface), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:047-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes.lesson:13
# text = Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with volcanic heat close to the surface, and it uses this heat to make electricity and to heat almost all its homes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 047-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Mid-Atlantic	Mid-Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Ridge	ridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
11	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **sit** | present | Iceland |  |  | the Mid-Atlantic Ridge |  | with volcanic heat | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ridge=Location |
| 2 | **use** | present | surface | this heat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | surface *not said here* | electricity |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product |
| 4 | **heat** | to-infinitive | surface *not said here* | surface's homes |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent home=Patient |

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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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**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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