Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 10
Fossils of the same reptiles, Mesosaurus and Lystrosaurus, are found on continents now separated by oceans that these animals could never have crossed.
What happens: find, separate, not cross · To what, where: Fossils, continents, animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving continents: from Pangaea to today» of the geography 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: 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 | 12 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 reptiles | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reptiles | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reptiles | amod |
| 5 | reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fossils | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mesosaurus | punct |
| 7 | Mesosaurus | Mesosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reptiles | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Lystrosaurus | cc |
| 9 | Lystrosaurus | Lystrosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mesosaurus | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 continents | case |
| 14 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 found | obl |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | _ | 16 separated | advmod |
| 16 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 continents | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 oceans | case |
| 18 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 separated | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 crossed | obj |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 animals | det |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 crossed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 crossed | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 crossed | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 crossed | aux |
| 25 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 oceans | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | Fossils of the same reptiles | continents | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | separate | participle | continents not said here | now | by oceans | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | not cross | could · perfect · passive | this animals | 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:geography:043-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today.lesson:10.
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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