Fossils, sentence 0
A fossil is a message from a living thing that died long ago, usually more than 10,000 years ago.
Who acts: fossil, living thing · What happens: be, die · To what, where: message, living thing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils» 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: who acts (fossil, living thing), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fossil | det |
| 2 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 message | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 message | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 message | det |
| 5 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 thing | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 message | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 died | nsubj |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thing | acl:relcl |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 ago | advmod |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 died | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 more | punct |
| 15 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 10,000 | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 more | fixed |
| 18 | 10,000 | 10,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 died | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 message | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fossil | a message | a living thing | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die | past | a living thing | ago property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:057-fossils.lesson:0.
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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