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title: In the rock cycle, rocks are worn down into bits that make sedimenta… — Igneous rocks and the rock cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: In the rock cycle, rocks are worn down into bits that make sedimentary rock, changed by heat and pressure into metamorphic rock, or melted and cooled into igneous rock. Who acts: bits. A sentence of the lesson «Igneous rocks and the rock cycle» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Igneous rocks and the rock cycle, sentence 14

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In the rock cycle, rocks are worn down into bits that make sedimentary rock, changed by heat and pressure into metamorphic rock, or melted and cooled into igneous rock.

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**Who acts:** bits · **What happens:** wear down, make, change, melt, cool · **To what, where:** rocks, rock cycle, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock, igneous rock

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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 (bits), 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:14
# text = In the rock cycle, rocks are worn down into bits that make sedimentary rock, changed by heat and pressure into metamorphic rock, or melted and cooled into igneous rock.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	sedimentary	sedimentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	metamorphic	metamorphic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	cooled	cool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	igneous	igneous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **wear down** | present · passive |  | rocks |  | the rock cycle |  | into bits | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **make** | present | bits | sedimentary rock |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rock=Product |
| 3 | **change** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | into metamorphic rock *result*; by heat and pressure | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into rock=Result |
| 4 | **melt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **cool** | participle |  |  |  | igneous rock |  |  | 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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