Fossils: how we know about life long ago, sentence 2

Fossils are not only bones: footprints, burrows, tooth marks and even fossil poo tell scientists how animals walked, what they ate and who bit whom.

Who acts: Fossils, footprints, animals · What happens: not be, tell, walk, eat, bit · To what, where: bones, scientists · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils: how we know about life long ago» 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, footprints, animals), 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	Fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bones	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bones	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bones	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 bones	advmod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 footprints	punct
7	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tell	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 burrows	punct
9	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 footprints	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 marks	punct
11	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marks	compound
12	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 footprints	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 poo	cc
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 poo	advmod
15	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poo	compound
16	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 footprints	conj
17	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bones	parataxis
18	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tell	obj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 walked	advmod
20	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 walked	nsubj
21	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 ate	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ate	nsubj
25	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 walked	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bit	cc
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 bit	nsubj
28	bit	bit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ate	conj
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 bit	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bones	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	present	Fossils	bones	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	footprints and burrows and tooth marks and fossil poo	scientists	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent scientist=Recipient clause=Topic
3	walk	past	animals		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	past	footprints = footprint		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
5	bit	past			tree rules

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:074-fossils-life-long-ago.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): R1-cc-next ×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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