How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life, sentence 7

Amber is tree resin that hardened over millions of years; insects stuck in the sticky resin were sealed in, with tiny hairs and wing veins kept.

Who acts: Amber, tree resin · What happens: be, harden, stick, seal in, keep · To what, where: tree resin, millions, insects, sticky resin, tiny hairs

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 (Amber, tree resin), 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	Amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resin	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 resin	cop
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resin	compound
4	resin	resin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 hardened	nsubj
6	hardened	harden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 resin	acl:relcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 millions	case
8	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hardened	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 millions	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 insects	punct
12	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sealed	nsubj:pass
13	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 insects	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 resin	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 resin	det
16	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 resin	amod
17	resin	resin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stuck	obl
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sealed	aux:pass
19	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 resin	parataxis
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 sealed	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kept	punct
22	with	with	SCONJ	_	28 kept	mark
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hairs	amod
24	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 kept	nsubj:pass
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 veins	cc
26	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 veins	compound
27	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hairs	conj
28	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sealed	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 resin	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Amber	tree resin		tree rules
2	harden	past	tree resin		millions of years	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stick	participle		insects not said here	the sticky resin	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in resin=Destination
4	seal in	past · passive		insects		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	keep	participle · passive		tiny hairs and wing veins		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:7.

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, 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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