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title: Igneous rocks are "fire rocks": they form when molten rock cools and… — Igneous rocks and the rock cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: Igneous rocks are "fire rocks": they form when molten rock cools and hardens, either deep underground or on the surface after an eruption. Who acts: Igneous rocks, rocks, molten rock. A sentence of the lesson «Igneous rocks and the rock cycle» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Igneous rocks and the rock cycle, sentence 0

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Igneous rocks are "fire rocks": they form when molten rock cools and hardens, either deep underground or on the surface after an eruption.

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**Who acts:** Igneous rocks, rocks, molten rock · **What happens:** be, form, cool, harden · **To what, where:** fire rocks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Igneous rocks and the rock cycle» 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 (Igneous rocks, rocks, molten rock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:048-igneous-rocks-and-the-rock-cycle.lesson:0
# text = Igneous rocks are "fire rocks": they form when molten rock cools and hardens, either deep underground or on the surface after an eruption.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 048-igneous-rocks-and-the-rock-cycle.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
1	Igneous	igneous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
12	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hardens	harden	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc:preconj	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
20	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Igneous rocks | fire rocks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | present | rocks *= rock* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cool** | present | molten rock |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **harden** | present | molten rock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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. **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.

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