How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life, sentence 14

Tiktaalik was a 375-million-year-old fish with a neck, lungs and strong leg-like fins; scientists guessed which age of rock it should be in, searched, and found it in the Canadian Arctic.

Who acts: Tiktaalik, old fish, fish · What happens: be, guess, search, find · To what, where: old fish, age, fish, Canadian Arctic

This is a sentence of the lesson «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life» 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 (Tiktaalik, old fish, fish), 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	Tiktaalik	Tiktaalik	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fish	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fish	det
4	375	375	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 million	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 375	punct
6	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 year	nummod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 million	punct
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fish	amod
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guessed	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 neck	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 neck	det
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fish	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lungs	punct
16	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 neck	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fins	cc
18	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fins	amod
19	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 like	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 leg	punct
21	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fins	amod
22	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lungs	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 scientists	punct
24	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 guessed	nsubj
25	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	27 age	det
27	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guessed	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 rock	case
29	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 age	nmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 in	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 in	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 in	cop
33	in	in	ADV	_	27 age	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 searched	punct
35	searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 guessed	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 found	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 found	cc
38	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 guessed	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 found	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 Arctic	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Arctic	det
42	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Arctic	amod
43	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 found	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 fish	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Tiktaalik	a old fish		with a neck and lungs and strong like fins	tree rules
2	guess	past	a old fish	which age of rock			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme
3	is	should	fish	which age of rock not said here		in property	tree rules
4	search	participle	a old fish not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	find	past	a old fish not said here	fish	the Canadian Arctic		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life.lesson:14.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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