--- title: When atoms line up in a repeating pattern, the solid grows flat face… — Minerals and crystals · tree and pragmatics description: When atoms line up in a repeating pattern, the solid grows flat faces and sharp edges: that is a crystal, and the pattern decides its shape, like cubes of salt or six-sided columns of quartz. Who acts: atoms, solid, that, pattern. 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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 (atoms, solid, that, pattern), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:050-minerals-and-crystals.lesson:1 # text = When atoms line up in a repeating pattern, the solid grows flat faces and sharp edges: that is a crystal, and the pattern decides its shape, like cubes of salt or six-sided columns of quartz. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 050-minerals-and-crystals.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 atoms atom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 line line VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 repeating repeat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 solid solid NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 cubes cube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:appos 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 sided sided ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 columns column NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 quartz quartz NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **line up** | present | atoms | | | | | in a repeating pattern | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pattern=Theme | | 2 | **repeat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **grow** | present | the solid | flat faces and sharp edges | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | that | a crystal | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **decide** | present | the pattern | pattern's shape | | | | like cubes of salt or six sided columns of quartz | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent shape=Topic | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:050-minerals-and-crystals.lesson:1`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Minerals and crystals, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/0/) - next →: [Minerals and crystals, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/)