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title: The Mohs scale ranks minerals from 1 (talc, the softest) to 10 (diam… — Minerals and crystals · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mohs scale ranks minerals from 1 (talc, the softest) to 10 (diamond, the hardest) by which can scratch which. Who acts: Mohs scale. A sentence of the lesson «Minerals and crystals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Minerals and crystals, sentence 10

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The Mohs scale ranks minerals from 1 (talc, the softest) to 10 (diamond, the hardest) by which can scratch which.

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**Who acts:** Mohs scale · **What happens:** rank, scratch · **To what, where:** minerals, 1

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Minerals and crystals» 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 (Mohs scale), 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:10
# text = The Mohs scale ranks minerals from 1 (talc, the softest) to 10 (diamond, the hardest) by which can scratch which.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mohs	Mohs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ranks	rank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	minerals	mineral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	talc	talc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	softest	soft	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	appos	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	appos	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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 | **rank** | present | the Mohs scale | minerals |  | 1 |  | to 10 | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent mineral=Theme to 10=be' |
| 2 | **scratch** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Patient by which=Location |

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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:050-minerals-and-crystals.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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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