Fossils, sentence 1
It can be a bone or shell turned to stone, a print of a leaf, or even a footprint.
Who acts: fossil · What happens: be, turn, print · To what, where: bone, stone, leaf
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bone | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bone | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bone | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bone | det |
| 5 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 shell | cc |
| 7 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bone | conj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bone | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 stone | case |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 print | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 print | det |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bone | conj | ||
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 leaf | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 leaf | det |
| 16 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 print | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 footprint | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 footprint | cc |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 footprint | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 footprint | det |
| 21 | footprint | footprint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bone | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bone | 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 | can | fossil | a bone or shell and a print of a leaf or a footprint | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | participle | a bone or shell and a print of a leaf or a footprint not said here | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | a leaf | nom print «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:1.
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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