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title: Metamorphic rock forms when rock is changed by great heat and pressu… — Rocks, minerals and fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: Metamorphic rock forms when rock is changed by great heat and pressure without melting; marble is limestone changed in this way. Who acts: Metamorphic rock, great heat. A sentence of the lesson «Rocks, minerals and fossils» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Rocks, minerals and fossils, sentence 10

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Metamorphic rock forms when rock is changed by great heat and pressure without melting; marble is limestone changed in this way.

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**Who acts:** Metamorphic rock, great heat · **What happens:** form, change, melt · **To what, where:** rock, marble, way

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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 (Metamorphic rock, great heat), 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:10
# text = Metamorphic rock forms when rock is changed by great heat and pressure without melting; marble is limestone changed in this way.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Metamorphic	metamorphic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	melting	melt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	limestone	limestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Metamorphic rock |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **change** | present · passive | great heat and pressure | rock |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **melt** | gerund | great heat and pressure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **change** | present · passive |  | marble |  | this way |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:world:061-rocks-minerals-fossils.lesson:10`.

**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): 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/).

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