--- title: Rocks look as if they last for ever, but they are slowly being broke… — Weathering and erosion · tree and pragmatics description: Rocks look as if they last for ever, but they are slowly being broken and carried away. Who acts: Rocks. A sentence of the lesson «Weathering and erosion» 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/52-weathering-and-erosion/0/) [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/) / [Weathering and erosion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/52-weathering-and-erosion/) / 0 # Weathering and erosion, sentence 0 Rocks look as if they last for ever, but they are slowly being broken and carried away. **Who acts:** Rocks · **What happens:** look, last, break, carry away · **To what, where:** Rocks This is a sentence of the lesson «Weathering and erosion» 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 (Rocks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:052-weathering-and-erosion.lesson:0 # text = Rocks look as if they last for ever, but they are slowly being broken and carried away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 052-weathering-and-erosion.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 last last VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **look** | present | Rocks | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **last** | present | Rocks *= rock* | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **break** | present · progressive · passive | | Rocks *= rock* | | | | slowly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **carry away** | participle | | | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:052-weathering-and-erosion.lesson:0`. **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): 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: [Gemstones and precious metals, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/20/) - next →: [Weathering and erosion, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/52-weathering-and-erosion/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/52-weathering-and-erosion/)