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title: Lakes form in hollows dug by glaciers, in craters of old volcanoes,… — Rivers, lakes and the sea up close · tree and pragmatics
description: Lakes form in hollows dug by glaciers, in craters of old volcanoes, in cracks where the crust pulled apart, or behind dams; Lake Baikal in Russia, in such a crack, is the deepest lake on Earth and holds about a fifth of all the fresh water in lakes and rivers. Who acts: Lakes, Lake Baikal. A sentenc
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# Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, sentence 3

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Lakes form in hollows dug by glaciers, in craters of old volcanoes, in cracks where the crust pulled apart, or behind dams; Lake Baikal in Russia, in such a crack, is the deepest lake on Earth and holds about a fifth of all the fresh water in lakes and rivers.

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**Who acts:** Lakes, Lake Baikal · **What happens:** form, dig, pull apart, be, hold · **To what, where:** hollows, crust, dams, deepest lake, Earth, fifth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» 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 (Lakes, Lake Baikal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:3
# text = Lakes form in hollows dug by glaciers, in craters of old volcanoes, in cracks where the crust pulled apart, or behind dams; Lake Baikal in Russia, in such a crack, is the deepest lake on Earth and holds about a fifth of all the fresh water in lakes and rivers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound
2	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hollows	hollow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:agent	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	craters	crater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
21	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Baikal	Baikal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	35	det:predet	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	amod	_	_
40	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
45	about	about	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:obl
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	52	det:predet	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	conj	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40: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 | Lakes |  |  | hollows |  | in craters of old volcanoes and cracks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hollow=Location |
| 2 | **dig** | participle |  | hollows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pull apart** | past · passive |  | the crust |  | dams |  | apart *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Lake Baikal in Russia | the deepest lake |  | Earth |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hold** | present | Lake Baikal in Russia *not said here* | a fifth of all fresh water in lakes and rivers |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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