--- title: Under the Earth's thin rocky crust lies the mantle, hot rock that is… — Volcanoes and earthquakes up close · tree and pragmatics description: Under the Earth's thin rocky crust lies the mantle, hot rock that is solid but flows very slowly; the plates of the crust ride on it. Who acts: hot rock, plates. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hot rock, plates), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.lesson:0 # text = Under the Earth's thin rocky crust lies the mantle, hot rock that is solid but flows very slowly; the plates of the crust ride on it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.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 Under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 crust crust NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 8 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 crust crust NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 ride ride VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | | the mantle | | the Earth's thin rocky crust | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mantle=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | hot rock | | | | | solid *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **flow** | present | hot rock *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ride** | present | the plates of the crust | | | crust | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | 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:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.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): 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: [Rocks, minerals and fossils, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/19/) - next →: [Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/62-volcanoes-and-earthquakes/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/62-volcanoes-and-earthquakes/)