--- title: A crystal is a solid whose atoms are lined up in a repeating pattern… — Minerals and crystals · tree and pragmatics description: A crystal is a solid whose atoms are lined up in a repeating pattern, giving flat faces and sharp edges; in glass the atoms are jumbled with no pattern, so glass is not a crystal. Who acts: crystal, glass. 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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 (crystal, glass), 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:6 # text = A crystal is a solid whose atoms are lined up in a repeating pattern, giving flat faces and sharp edges; in glass the atoms are jumbled with no pattern, so glass is not a crystal. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 solid solid NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 atoms atom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 lined line VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 repeating repeat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl 17 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 atoms atom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 jumbled jumble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 34 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 parataxis _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | a crystal | a solid | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **line up** | present · passive | | atoms | | | | in a repeating pattern | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in pattern=Theme | | 3 | **repeat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **give** | gerund | | flat faces and sharp edges | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | | 5 | **jumble** | present · passive | | the atoms | | glass | | with no pattern | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with pattern=Co-Patient | | 6 | **not** **is a** | present | glass | a crystal | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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