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title: Sandstone is made of sand grains cemented together, often from old b… — Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks · tree and pragmatics
description: Sandstone is made of sand grains cemented together, often from old beaches, rivers or deserts. 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 7

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Sandstone is made of sand grains cemented together, often from old beaches, rivers or deserts.

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**What happens:** make, cement together · **To what, where:** Sandstone, sand grains, old beaches

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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: 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:7
# text = Sandstone is made of sand grains cemented together, often from old beaches, rivers or deserts.
# 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 ×1
1	Sandstone	sandstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	cemented	cement	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | Sandstone |  |  |  | of sand grains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **cement together** | participle |  | sand grains *not said here* |  | old beaches and rivers or deserts |  | often, 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:7`.

**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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