Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, sentence 3

Metamorphic rocks are rocks changed by heat and pressure without melting, the way clay in a kiln turns into a hard pot: limestone becomes marble, and shale becomes slate.

Who acts: way clay, limestone, shale · What happens: be, melt, turn, become · To what, where: rocks, hard pot, marble, slate

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks» of the geography 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 (way clay, limestone, shale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metamorphic	metamorphic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rocks	amod
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rocks	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	cop
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rocks	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 heat	case
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	obl:agent
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pressure	cc
9	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heat	conj
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 melting	mark
11	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 changed	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 melting	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clay	compound
15	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turns	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 kiln	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 kiln	det
18	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clay	nmod
19	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 pot	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pot	det
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pot	amod
23	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turns	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 becomes	punct
25	limestone	limestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 becomes	nsubj
26	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 turns	parataxis
27	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 becomes	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 becomes	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 becomes	cc
30	shale	shale	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 becomes	nsubj
31	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	conj
32	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 becomes	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 changed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present		rocks not said here		change property	tree rules
2	melt	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	turn	present	way clay in a kiln		a hard pot		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into pot=Trajectory
4	become	present	limestone	marble			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	become	present	shale	slate			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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, 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:geography:049-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks.lesson:3.

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. 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.

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