Fossils, sentence 12
Ammonites were sea creatures with coiled shells, related to squid, and are very common fossils.
Who acts: Ammonites · What happens: be · To what, where: sea creatures, common fossils
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 (Ammonites), 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 | Ammonites | ammonite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 creatures | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 creatures | cop |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 creatures | compound |
| 4 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 shells | case |
| 6 | coiled | coiled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shells | amod |
| 7 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 creatures | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 related | punct |
| 9 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 creatures | amod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 squid | case |
| 11 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 related | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fossils | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fossils | cc |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fossils | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 common | advmod |
| 16 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fossils | amod |
| 17 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 creatures | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 creatures | 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 | past | Ammonites | sea creatures and common fossils | with coiled shells | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Ammonites not said here | common fossils | 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:057-fossils.lesson:12.
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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