--- title: Rocks are made of minerals, natural solid materials each built from… — Rocks, minerals and fossils · tree and pragmatics description: Rocks are made of minerals, natural solid materials each built from the same tiny particles arranged in a regular pattern; granite, for example, is a mix of grains of quartz, feldspar and mica that you can see with a magnifying glass. Who acts: granite, you. A sentence of the lesson «Rocks, minerals --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Rocks, minerals and fossils](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/) / 0 # Rocks, minerals and fossils, sentence 0 Rocks are made of minerals, natural solid materials each built from the same tiny particles arranged in a regular pattern; granite, for example, is a mix of grains of quartz, feldspar and mica that you can see with a magnifying glass. **Who acts:** granite, you · **What happens:** make, build, arrange, be, see, magnify · **To what, where:** Rocks, natural solid materials, same tiny particles, regular pattern, mix This is a sentence of the lesson «Rocks, minerals and fossils» 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 (granite, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:061-rocks-minerals-fossils.lesson:0 # text = Rocks are made of minerals, natural solid materials each built from the same tiny particles arranged in a regular pattern; granite, for example, is a mix of grains of quartz, feldspar and mica that you can see with a magnifying glass. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 061-rocks-minerals-fossils.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 materials material NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 11 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 particles particle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 arranged arrange VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 23 granite granite NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 quartz quartz NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 feldspar feldspar NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 mica mica NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obj _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 magnifying magnify VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 amod _ _ 46 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | Rocks | | | | of minerals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **build** | participle | | each natural solid materials *not said here* | | the same tiny particles | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from particle=Material | | 3 | **arrange** | participle | | the same tiny particles *not said here* | | a regular pattern | | | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pattern=Destination | | 4 | **is a** | present | granite | a mix and mica | | | | of grains of quartz and feldspar | tree rules | | 5 | **see** | can | you | a mix and mica | | | | with a magnifying glass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 6 | **magnify** | gerund | | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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. **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:061-rocks-minerals-fossils.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Thinking it through — forces, heat, li…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/60-reasoning-energy-technology/17/) - next →: [Rocks, minerals and fossils, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/)