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title: Where hard and soft rock lie side by side, the soft rock wears back… — Coasts and caves · tree and pragmatics
description: Where hard and soft rock lie side by side, the soft rock wears back into bays and the hard rock sticks out as headlands. Who acts: hard rock, soft rock. A sentence of the lesson «Coasts and caves» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Coasts and caves, sentence 1

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Where hard and soft rock lie side by side, the soft rock wears back into bays and the hard rock sticks out as headlands.

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**Who acts:** hard rock, soft rock · **What happens:** lie, wear back, stick out · **To what, where:** side, bays

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coasts and caves» 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 (hard rock, soft rock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:055-coasts-and-caves.lesson:1
# text = Where hard and soft rock lie side by side, the soft rock wears back into bays and the hard rock sticks out as headlands.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 055-coasts-and-caves.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
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
4	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
5	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	fixed	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bays	bay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	headlands	headland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **lie** | present | hard rock | side |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wear back** | present | the soft rock |  |  | bays |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stick out** | present | the hard rock |  |  |  |  | as headlands | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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:055-coasts-and-caves.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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/).

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