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title: People have always built with local stone, so old towns often show t… — Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks · tree and pragmatics
description: People have always built with local stone, so old towns often show the local geology, like the honey-coloured limestone of Bath or the granite of Aberdeen. Who acts: People, old towns. A sentence of the lesson «Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, sentence 16

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People have always built with local stone, so old towns often show the local geology, like the honey-coloured limestone of Bath or the granite of Aberdeen.

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**Who acts:** People, old towns · **What happens:** build, show, colour · **To what, where:** local geology

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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 (People, old towns), 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:16
# text = People have always built with local stone, so old towns often show the local geology, like the honey-coloured limestone of Bath or the granite of Aberdeen.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	geology	geology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	coloured	colour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
23	limestone	limestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Bath	Bath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Aberdeen	Aberdeen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | present · perfect | People |  |  |  |  | with local stone; always *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with stone=Source |
| 2 | **show** | present | old towns | the local geology |  |  |  | like the coloured limestone of Bath or the granite of Aberdeen; often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent geology=Recipient |
| 3 | **colour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:16`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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