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title: Limestone and chalk are made mostly from the shells and skeletons of… — Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks · tree and pragmatics
description: Limestone and chalk are made mostly from the shells and skeletons of tiny sea creatures. 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 8

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Limestone and chalk are made mostly from the shells and skeletons of tiny sea creatures.

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**What happens:** make · **To what, where:** Limestone, shells

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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:8
# text = Limestone and chalk are made mostly from the shells and skeletons of tiny sea creatures.
# 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
1	Limestone	limestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	chalk	chalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | Limestone and chalk |  | the shells of tiny sea creatures and skeletons |  | mostly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from shell=Material |

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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:8`.

**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. **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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