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title: Diamonds and coal are both made of carbon, but most diamonds formed… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics
description: Diamonds and coal are both made of carbon, but most diamonds formed deep in the Earth long before the land plants that made coal existed. Who acts: most diamonds, land plants. A sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 15

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Diamonds and coal are both made of carbon, but most diamonds formed deep in the Earth long before the land plants that made coal existed.

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**Who acts:** most diamonds, land plants · **What happens:** make, form, exist · **To what, where:** Diamonds, Earth, coal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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 (most diamonds, land plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:15
# text = Diamonds and coal are both made of carbon, but most diamonds formed deep in the Earth long before the land plants that made coal existed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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 ×4
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	both	both	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj
26	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | Diamonds and coal |  |  |  | of carbon; both *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **form** | past | most diamonds |  |  | the Earth |  | deep *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in earth=Location |
| 3 | **make** | past | the land plants | coal |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coal=Product |
| 4 | **exist** | past | the land plants |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:15`.

**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 ×4. **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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