Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up, sentence 3

That is why the curly stone you pick up on a beach is so special: it is the shape of a sea animal that died long before the first person walked the Earth.

Who acts: That, you, curly stone, stone, sea animal, first person · What happens: be, pick up, die, walk · To what, where: curly stone, beach, shape, Earth

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 (That, you, curly stone, stone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

evaluate

voice

narrator

polarity

pos

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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