Fossils, sentence 15
Some fossils keep soft parts: insects trapped in amber, and woolly mammoths frozen in Siberian ice.
Who acts: fossils · What happens: keep, trap, freeze · To what, where: soft parts, insects, amber, woolly mammoths, Siberian ice
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 (fossils), 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 | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parts | amod |
| 5 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 trapped | punct |
| 7 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 parts | appos |
| 8 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 insects | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 amber | case |
| 10 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trapped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mammoths | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mammoths | cc |
| 13 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mammoths | amod |
| 14 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 insects | conj |
| 15 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 mammoths | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 ice | case |
| 17 | Siberian | siberian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ice | amod |
| 18 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frozen | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | some fossils | soft parts | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trap | participle | insects and woolly mammoths not said here | amber | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in amber=Destination | ||||
| 3 | freeze | participle | woolly mammoths not said here | Siberian ice | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:15.
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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