Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up, sentence 15
Some fossils catch a moment, such as a fish with another fish in its mouth, because fast burial froze the scene.
Who acts: fossils, fast burial · What happens: catch, freeze · To what, where: scene
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 (fossils, fast burial), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 fossils | det |
| 2 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 catch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fish | punct |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 fish | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fish | det |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moment | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 fish | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 fish | det |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fish | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fish | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 froze | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 froze | mark |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 burial | amod |
| 20 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 froze | nsubj |
| 21 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 catch | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 scene | det |
| 23 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 froze | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | some fossils | moment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | freeze | past | fast burial | the scene | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient scene=Result |
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:15.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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