--- title: Slate is shale changed by pressure so that it splits into thin, flat… — Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks · tree and pragmatics description: Slate is shale changed by pressure so that it splits into thin, flat sheets, which is why it is used for roofs. Who acts: pressure, slate. 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 ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks/) / 14 # Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, sentence 14 Slate is shale changed by pressure so that it splits into thin, flat sheets, which is why it is used for roofs. **Who acts:** pressure, slate · **What happens:** change, split, use · **To what, where:** shale, flat sheets, thin 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 (pressure, slate), 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:14 # text = Slate is shale changed by pressure so that it splits into thin, flat sheets, which is why it is used for roofs. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Slate slate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:cop 3 shale shale NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 so so SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 14 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 sheets sheet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 19 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present · passive | pressure | shale *not said here* | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **split** | present | slate | flat sheets | | | | into thin *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into thin=Result | | 3 | **use** | present · passive | | flat sheets | | | | for roofs | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for roof=Eventuality | 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. **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:14`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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