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title: Quartz is one of the most common minerals, made of silicon and oxyge… — Minerals and crystals · tree and pragmatics
description: Quartz is one of the most common minerals, made of silicon and oxygen, and most sand is quartz. Who acts: Quartz, most sand. 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 8

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Quartz is one of the most common minerals, made of silicon and oxygen, and most sand is quartz.

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**Who acts:** Quartz, most sand · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** one, common minerals, quartz

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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 (Quartz, most sand), 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:8
# text = Quartz is one of the most common minerals, made of silicon and oxygen, and most sand is 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Quartz	quartz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	minerals	mineral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	silicon	silicon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
18	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	quartz	quartz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | present | Quartz | one and quartz |  |  |  | of the common minerals | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the common minerals *not said here* |  |  |  | of silicon and oxygen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **is a** | present | most sand | quartz |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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.

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