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title: The Sun drives the outside of the cycle with weather, rain and river… — Igneous rocks and the rock cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sun drives the outside of the cycle with weather, rain and rivers that wear rock down, and the Earth's inner heat drives the inside by melting and squeezing rock deep down. Who acts: Sun, rivers, inner heat, Earth. A sentence of the lesson «Igneous rocks and the rock cycle» of the geography cour
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# Igneous rocks and the rock cycle, sentence 4

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The Sun drives the outside of the cycle with weather, rain and rivers that wear rock down, and the Earth's inner heat drives the inside by melting and squeezing rock deep down.

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**Who acts:** Sun, rivers, inner heat, Earth · **What happens:** drive, wear down, melt, squeeze, heat · **To what, where:** outside, rock, inside

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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 (Sun, rivers, inner heat, Earth), 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:4
# text = The Sun drives the outside of the cycle with weather, rain and rivers that wear rock down, and the Earth's inner heat drives the inside by melting and squeezing rock deep down.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
30	melting	melt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
33	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **drive** | present | the Sun | the outside of the cycle |  |  |  | with weather and rain and rivers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outside=Theme |
| 2 | **wear down** | present | rivers | rock |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rock=Source |
| 3 | **drive** | present | the Earth's inner heat | the inside |  |  |  | down *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside=Trajectory |
| 4 | **melt** | gerund | the Earth's inner heat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **squeeze** | gerund | the Earth's inner heat *not said here* | rock |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme |
| 6 | **heat** |  | the Earth |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:4`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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