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title: Think of a granite kitchen worktop with its speckles of grey, pink a… — Igneous rocks and the rock cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of a granite kitchen worktop with its speckles of grey, pink and black; each speckle is a crystal that grew slowly for thousands of years kilometres underground. Who acts: you, speckle, crystal. A sentence of the lesson «Igneous rocks and the rock cycle» of the geography course of Mova's prima
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# Igneous rocks and the rock cycle, sentence 2

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Think of a granite kitchen worktop with its speckles of grey, pink and black; each speckle is a crystal that grew slowly for thousands of years kilometres underground.

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**Who acts:** you, speckle, crystal · **What happens:** think, be, grow · **To what, where:** crystal

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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 (you, speckle, crystal), 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:2
# text = Think of a granite kitchen worktop with its speckles of grey, pink and black; each speckle is a crystal that grew slowly for thousands of years kilometres underground.
# 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 ×1
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	worktop	worktop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	speckles	speckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	speckle	speckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a granite kitchen worktop with worktop's speckles of grey | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | each speckle | a crystal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | past | a crystal |  |  |  |  | for thousands of years; slowly, underground *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:048-igneous-rocks-and-the-rock-cycle.lesson:2`.

**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 ×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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