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title: Granite is a speckled igneous rock with big crystals of quartz, feld… — Igneous rocks and the rock cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: Granite is a speckled igneous rock with big crystals of quartz, feldspar and mica, formed deep underground. Who acts: Granite. A sentence of the lesson «Igneous rocks and the rock cycle» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Igneous rocks and the rock cycle, sentence 7

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Granite is a speckled igneous rock with big crystals of quartz, feldspar and mica, formed deep underground.

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**Who acts:** Granite · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** speckled 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 (Granite), 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:7
# text = Granite is a speckled igneous rock with big crystals of quartz, feldspar and mica, formed deep 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	speckled	speckle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
5	igneous	igneous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	crystals	crystal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	quartz	quartz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	feldspar	feldspar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	mica	mica	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Granite | a speckled igneous rock |  |  |  | with big crystals of quartz and feldspar and mica | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  | a speckled igneous rock *not said here* |  |  |  | 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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**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): 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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