Minerals and crystals, sentence 1

When atoms line up in a repeating pattern, the solid grows flat faces and sharp edges: that is a crystal, and the pattern decides its shape, like cubes of salt or six-sided columns of quartz.

Who acts: atoms, solid, that, pattern · What happens: line up, repeat, grow, be, decide · To what, where: flat faces, crystal, shape

This is a sentence of the lesson «Minerals and crystals» 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 (atoms, solid, that, pattern), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 line	advmod
2	atoms	atom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 line	nsubj
3	line	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 grows	advcl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 line	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 pattern	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pattern	det
7	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 pattern	amod
8	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 line	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 line	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 solid	det
11	solid	solid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grows	nsubj
12	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 faces	amod
14	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grows	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 edges	cc
16	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 edges	amod
17	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 faces	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 crystal	punct
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 crystal	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 crystal	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 crystal	det
22	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grows	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 decides	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 decides	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pattern	det
26	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 decides	nsubj
27	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 crystal	conj
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shape	nmod:poss
29	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 decides	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cubes	punct
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 cubes	case
32	cubes	cube	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 decides	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 salt	case
34	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cubes	nmod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 columns	cc
36	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 columns	nummod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 six	punct
38	sided	sided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 columns	amod
39	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 cubes	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 quartz	case
41	quartz	quartz	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 columns	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 grows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	line up	present	atoms		in a repeating pattern	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pattern=Theme
2	repeat	gerund				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	grow	present	the solid	flat faces and sharp edges		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme
4	is a	present	that	a crystal		tree rules
5	decide	present	the pattern	pattern's shape	like cubes of salt or six sided columns of quartz	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent shape=Topic

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:050-minerals-and-crystals.lesson:1.

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, 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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