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title: Conglomerate is a rock made of rounded pebbles, rolled smooth by riv… — Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks · tree and pragmatics
description: Conglomerate is a rock made of rounded pebbles, rolled smooth by rivers or waves, cemented together. Who acts: Conglomerate. A sentence of the lesson «Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, sentence 10

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Conglomerate is a rock made of rounded pebbles, rolled smooth by rivers or waves, cemented together.

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**Who acts:** Conglomerate · **What happens:** be, make, round, roll, cement together · **To what, where:** rock

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks» 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 (Conglomerate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:049-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks.lesson:10
# text = Conglomerate is a rock made of rounded pebbles, rolled smooth by rivers or waves, cemented together.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 049-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Conglomerate	conglomerate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	rounded	round	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cemented	cement	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **is a** | present | Conglomerate | a rock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a rock *not said here* |  |  |  | of rounded pebbles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **round** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **roll** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by rivers or waves; smooth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Trajectory |
| 5 | **cement together** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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**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:049-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks.lesson:10`.

**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, R6-punct-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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