Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, sentence 7
Sandstone is made of sand grains cemented together, often from old beaches, rivers or deserts.
What happens: make, cement together · To what, where: Sandstone, sand grains, old beaches
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: 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 | Sandstone | sandstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 grains | case |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grains | compound |
| 6 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 7 | cemented | cement | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 grains | acl |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 cemented | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beaches | punct |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 cemented | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 beaches | case |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beaches | amod |
| 13 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cemented | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rivers | punct |
| 15 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beaches | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 deserts | cc |
| 17 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beaches | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
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 | Sandstone | of sand grains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | cement together | participle | sand grains not said here | old beaches and rivers or deserts | often, together property | vn tape-22.4 «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, 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:7.
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): 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.
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