--- title: Rock salt (halite) is a mineral that formed when ancient seas dried… — Minerals and crystals · tree and pragmatics description: Rock salt (halite) is a mineral that formed when ancient seas dried up. Who acts: Rock salt, mineral, ancient seas. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Minerals and crystals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/) / 14 # Minerals and crystals, sentence 14 Rock salt (halite) is a mineral that formed when ancient seas dried up. **Who acts:** Rock salt, mineral, ancient seas · **What happens:** be, form, dry up · **To what, where:** mineral 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 (Rock salt, mineral, ancient seas), 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:14 # text = Rock salt (halite) is a mineral that formed when ancient seas dried up. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 4 halite halite NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mineral mineral NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 formed form VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:xcomp 13 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 14 dried dry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **is a** | present | Rock salt | a mineral | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **form** | past | a mineral | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dry up** | past | ancient seas | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:14`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Minerals and crystals, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/12/) - next →: [Minerals and crystals, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/)