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title: Shale and mudstone are made of very fine mud that settled in calm wa… — Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks · tree and pragmatics
description: Shale and mudstone are made of very fine mud that settled in calm water, and they are the most common sedimentary rocks. Who acts: fine mud, skeletons. A sentence of the lesson «Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, sentence 9

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Shale and mudstone are made of very fine mud that settled in calm water, and they are the most common sedimentary rocks.

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**Who acts:** fine mud, skeletons · **What happens:** make, settle, be · **To what, where:** Shale, calm water, common sedimentary rocks

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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 (fine mud, skeletons), 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:9
# text = Shale and mudstone are made of very fine mud that settled in calm water, and they are the most common sedimentary rocks.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Shale	shale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	mudstone	mudstone	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	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	sedimentary	sedimentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
24	.	.	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 |  | Shale and mudstone |  |  |  | of fine mud | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **settle** | past | fine mud |  |  | calm water |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | skeletons *= skeleton* | the common sedimentary rocks |  |  |  |  | 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:9`.

**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): R7-rel-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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