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title: All rocks belong to three families, igneous, sedimentary and metamor… — Igneous rocks and the rock cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: All rocks belong to three families, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic, and over millions of years each can be turned into the others in the rock cycle. Who acts: rocks. A sentence of the lesson «Igneous rocks and the rock cycle» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Igneous rocks and the rock cycle, sentence 3

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All rocks belong to three families, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic, and over millions of years each can be turned into the others in the rock cycle.

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**Who acts:** rocks · **What happens:** belong, turn · **To what, where:** each, millions

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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 (rocks), 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:3
# text = All rocks belong to three families, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic, and over millions of years each can be turned into the others in the rock cycle.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	igneous	igneous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sedimentary	sedimentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
12	metamorphic	metamorphic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | all rocks |  |  |  |  | to three families | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | can · passive |  | each |  | millions of years |  | into the others in the rock cycle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme over million=Source into other=Trajectory |

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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:3`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×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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