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title: Some rock high in mountains formed long ago under the sea and was pu… — Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some rock high in mountains formed long ago under the sea and was pushed up when plates collided, so it can hold shells of sea animals. Who acts: plates, rock. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped, sentence 19

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Some rock high in mountains formed long ago under the sea and was pushed up when plates collided, so it can hold shells of sea animals.

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**Who acts:** plates, rock · **What happens:** form, push up, collide, hold · **To what, where:** rock, sea, shells

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped» of the world 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 (plates, rock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:043-landforms.lesson:19
# text = Some rock high in mountains formed long ago under the sea and was pushed up when plates collided, so it can hold shells of sea animals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 043-landforms.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
6	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	collided	collide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | past · passive |  | some rock |  | the sea |  | ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **push up** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP» |
| 3 | **collide** | past | plates |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | can | rock | shells of sea animals |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=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:world:043-landforms.lesson:19`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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