Fossils, sentence 14
Some fossils are used to date rocks, because the species lived only for a short time but spread widely.
Who acts: species · What happens: use, date, live, spread · To what, where: fossils, rocks
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 (species), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 fossils | det |
| 2 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 date | mark |
| 6 | date | date | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 date | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 lived | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 species | det |
| 11 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | advcl |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 lived | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 spread | cc |
| 19 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | conj |
| 20 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 19 spread | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | some fossils | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | date | to-infinitive | rocks | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | past | the species | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spread | past | the species not said here | widely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:14.
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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