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title: How fast the rock cools decides how big its crystals are: slow cooli… — Igneous rocks and the rock cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: How fast the rock cools decides how big its crystals are: slow cooling deep down gives big crystals, quick cooling in the air gives tiny ones, and very quick cooling gives glass with none. Who acts: rock cools, crystals, slow cooling, quick cooling. A sentence of the lesson «Igneous rocks and the ro
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# Igneous rocks and the rock cycle, sentence 1

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How fast the rock cools decides how big its crystals are: slow cooling deep down gives big crystals, quick cooling in the air gives tiny ones, and very quick cooling gives glass with none.

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**Who acts:** rock cools, crystals, slow cooling, quick cooling · **What happens:** decide, be, give · **To what, where:** big crystals, tiny ones, glass · **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 (rock cools, crystals, slow cooling, quick cooling), 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:1
# text = How fast the rock cools decides how big its crystals are: slow cooling deep down gives big crystals, quick cooling in the air gives tiny ones, and very quick cooling gives glass with none.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cools	cool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	crystals	crystal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cooling	cooling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
17	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	crystals	crystal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
21	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cooling	cooling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	cooling	cooling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	35	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | present | the rock cools |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | eruption's crystals |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | present | slow cooling | big crystals |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crystal=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | quick cooling in the air | tiny ones |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | present | quick cooling | glass |  |  |  | with none | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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.

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