--- title: The Cave of Crystals in Naica, Mexico, holds gypsum crystals up to a… — Minerals and crystals · tree and pragmatics description: The Cave of Crystals in Naica, Mexico, holds gypsum crystals up to about 12 metres long, which grew very slowly for hundreds of thousands of years in warm mineral water. Who acts: Cave, gypsum crystals. A sentence of the lesson «Minerals and crystals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Minerals and crystals, sentence 16 The Cave of Crystals in Naica, Mexico, holds gypsum crystals up to about 12 metres long, which grew very slowly for hundreds of thousands of years in warm mineral water. **Who acts:** Cave, gypsum crystals · **What happens:** hold, grow · **To what, where:** gypsum crystals, warm mineral water 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 (Cave, gypsum crystals), 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:16 # text = The Cave of Crystals in Naica, Mexico, holds gypsum crystals up to about 12 metres long, which grew very slowly for hundreds of thousands of years in warm mineral water. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Cave cave PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Crystals crystal PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Naica Naica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 gypsum gypsum NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 crystals crystal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 up up ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 18 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 mineral mineral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | the Cave of Crystals in Naica | gypsum crystals | | | | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crystal=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | past | gypsum crystals | | | warm mineral water | | for hundreds of thousands of years; slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | 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:16`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/15/) - next →: [Gemstones and precious metals, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/)