--- title: When plates collide, layers of rock can be bent into folds like a ru… — Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks · tree and pragmatics description: When plates collide, layers of rock can be bent into folds like a rug pushed against a wall, and old towns built from local stone show the geology under their streets. Who acts: plates, old towns. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plates, 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:4 # text = When plates collide, layers of rock can be bent into folds like a rug pushed against a wall, and old towns built from local stone show the geology under their streets. # 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): no change 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 collide collide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 rug rug NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 against against ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 24 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 geology geology NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 under under ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **collide** | present | plates | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bend** | can · passive | | layers of rock | | folds | | like a rug | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into fold=Product | | 3 | **push** | participle | | a rug *not said here* | | | | against a wall | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against wall=Theme | | 4 | **build** | participle | | old towns *not said here* | | local stone | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from stone=Material | | 5 | **show** | present | old towns | the geology | | towns's streets | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent geology=Recipient | 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. 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