Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, sentence 11
Most fossils are found in sedimentary rocks, because living things were buried in the layers.
What happens: find, live, bury · To what, where: Most fossils, sedimentary rocks, living things, layers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks» 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 fossils | amod |
| 2 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux:pass |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rocks | case |
| 6 | sedimentary | sedimentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rocks | amod |
| 7 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 buried | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 buried | mark |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 buried | aux:pass |
| 13 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 found | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 layers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 layers | det |
| 16 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 buried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | Most fossils | sedimentary rocks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | living things | the layers | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in layer=Destination |
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:049-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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