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title: Inland, caves are made in a different way: slightly acidic rain diss… — Coasts and caves · tree and pragmatics
description: Inland, caves are made in a different way: slightly acidic rain dissolves limestone. Who acts: acidic rain. 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 clause.
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# Coasts and caves, sentence 4

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Inland, caves are made in a different way: slightly acidic rain dissolves limestone.

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**Who acts:** acidic rain · **What happens:** make, dissolve · **To what, where:** caves, different way, limestone

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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 (acidic rain), 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:4
# text = Inland, caves are made in a different way: slightly acidic rain dissolves limestone.
# 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): no change
1	Inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
11	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	acidic	acidic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	limestone	limestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | caves |  | a different way |  | inland *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **dissolve** | present | acidic rain | limestone |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limestone=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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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