Fossils: how we know about life long ago, sentence 7

Trace fossils such as footprints, burrows, nests and tooth marks are signs of life, and the distance between steps tells how fast a dinosaur walked.

Who acts: Trace fossils, distance, dinosaur · What happens: be, tell, walk · To what, where: signs · 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 (Trace fossils, distance, dinosaur), 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	Trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fossils	compound
2	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 signs	nsubj
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	5 footprints	case
4	as	as	ADP	_	3 such	fixed
5	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fossils	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 burrows	punct
7	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 footprints	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nests	punct
9	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fossils	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 marks	cc
11	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marks	compound
12	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fossils	conj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 signs	cop
14	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 life	case
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 signs	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tells	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tells	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 distance	det
20	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tells	nsubj
21	between	between	ADP	_	22 steps	case
22	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 distance	nmod
23	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 signs	conj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 fast	advmod
25	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 walked	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dinosaur	det
27	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walked	nsubj
28	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tells	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 signs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Trace fossils such footprints and burrows and nests and tooth marks	signs	of life	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	the distance between steps			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	walk	past	a dinosaur		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:074-fossils-life-long-ago.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): R5-strong ×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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