How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life, sentence 2

If a fossil lies between two ash layers, one 67 and one 65 million years old, the animal lived in between.

Who acts: fossil, animal · What happens: lie, live · To what, where: two ash layers

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 (fossil, animal), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 lies	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fossil	det
3	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lies	nsubj
4	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 old	advcl
5	between	between	ADP	_	8 layers	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 layers	nummod
7	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 layers	compound
8	layers	layer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lies	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 67	compound
11	67	67	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 million	compound
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 million	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 million	compound
14	65	65	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 million	compound
15	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 old	obl:unmarked
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lived	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 animal	det
20	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	nsubj
21	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 old	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	21 lived	obl
23	between	between	ADP	_	22 in	fixed
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 lived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	a fossil			two ash layers			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between layer=Location
2	live	past	the animal						vn 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:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life.lesson:2.

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): R6-punct-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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