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title: Coasts with hard and soft rock form headlands and bays, since soft r… — Coasts and caves · tree and pragmatics
description: Coasts with hard and soft rock form headlands and bays, since soft rock wears back faster. Who acts: Coasts, 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 clause.
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# Coasts and caves, sentence 7

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Coasts with hard and soft rock form headlands and bays, since soft rock wears back faster.

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**Who acts:** Coasts, soft rock · **What happens:** form, wear · **To what, where:** headlands

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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 (Coasts, 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:7
# text = Coasts with hard and soft rock form headlands and bays, since soft rock wears back faster.
# 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	Coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	headlands	headland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bays	bay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **form** | present | Coasts with hard rock | headlands and bays |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location headland=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | present | soft rock |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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:7`.

**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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