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Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up, sentence 10

Trace fossils are marks animals left behind, such as footprints, burrows, tooth marks, nests, eggs and fossil poo; they show how animals walked, hid and lived.

Who acts: Trace fossils, animals, bodies · What happens: be, leave behind, show, walk, hide, live · To what, where: marks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» of the biology 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 (Trace fossils, animals, bodies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

compoundnsubjcopnsubjacladvmodpunctcasefixedappospunctconjpunctcompoundconjpunctconjpunctconjcccompoundconjpunctnsubjparataxisadvmodnsubjccomppunctconjccconjpunctrootTraceNOUNfossilsNOUNareAUXmarksNOUNanimalsNOUNleftVERBbehindADV,PUNCTsuchADJasADPfootprintsNOUN,PUNCTburrowsNOUN,PUNCTtoothNOUNmarksNOUN,PUNCTnestsNOUN,PUNCTeggsNOUNandCCONJfossilNOUNpooNOUN;PUNCTtheyPRONshowVERBhowADVanimalsNOUNwalkedVERB,PUNCThidVERBandCCONJlivedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TracetraceNOUNNumber=Sing2 fossilscompound
2fossilsfossilNOUNNumber=Plur4 marksnsubj
3arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 markscop
4marksmarkNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
5animalsanimalNOUNNumber=Plur6 leftnsubj
6leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 marksacl
7behindbehindADV_6 leftadvmod
8,,PUNCT_11 footprintspunct
9suchsuchADJDegree=Pos ExtPos=ADP11 footprintscase
10asasADP_9 suchfixed
11footprintsfootprintNOUNNumber=Plur5 animalsappos
12,,PUNCT_13 burrowspunct
13burrowsburrowNOUNNumber=Plur11 footprintsconj
14,,PUNCT_16 markspunct
15toothtoothNOUNNumber=Sing16 markscompound
16marksmarkNOUNNumber=Plur11 footprintsconj
17,,PUNCT_18 nestspunct
18nestsnestNOUNNumber=Plur11 footprintsconj
19,,PUNCT_20 eggspunct
20eggseggNOUNNumber=Plur11 footprintsconj
21andandCCONJ_23 poocc
22fossilfossilNOUNNumber=Sing23 poocompound
23poopooNOUNNumber=Sing11 footprintsconj
24;;PUNCT_26 showpunct
25theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs26 shownsubj
26showshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 marksparataxis
27howhowADVPronType=Int29 walkedadvmod
28animalsanimalNOUNNumber=Plur29 walkednsubj
29walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 showccomp
30,,PUNCT_31 hidpunct
31hidhideVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 walkedconj
32andandCCONJ_33 livedcc
33livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 walkedconj
34..PUNCT_4 markspunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentTrace fossilsmarkstree rules
2leave behindparticipleanimalsmarks not said herebehind propertyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme
3showpresentbodies = bodyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4walkpastanimalsvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5hidepastanimals not said herevn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6livepastanimals not said herevn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up.lesson:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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