Fossils, sentence 11
Trace fossils record what animals did, such as footprints, burrows and even fossil dung.
Who acts: Trace fossils, animals · What happens: record, do
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 (Trace fossils, animals), 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 | 3 record | nsubj |
| 3 | record | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 did | obj |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 record | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 footprints | punct |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 footprints | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animals | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 burrows | punct |
| 12 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 footprints | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dung | cc |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 dung | advmod |
| 15 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dung | compound |
| 16 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burrows | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 record | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present | Trace fossils | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | past | animals and footprints and burrows and fossil dung | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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: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): 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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