Fossils, sentence 18

Long before science, people explained fossils with legends, such as griffins, perhaps from beaked dinosaur skulls found in the deserts of Central Asia, or "snakestones" from ammonites.

Who acts: people · What happens: explain, find · To what, where: fossils, beaked dinosaur skulls, deserts

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 (people), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 science	advmod
2	before	before	ADP	_	3 science	case
3	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 explained	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 explained	punct
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 explained	nsubj
6	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 explained	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 legends	case
9	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 explained	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 griffins	punct
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	13 griffins	case
12	as	as	ADP	_	11 such	fixed
13	griffins	griffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 legends	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 skulls	punct
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 skulls	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 skulls	case
17	beaked	beaked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 skulls	amod
18	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 skulls	compound
19	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 griffins	conj
20	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 skulls	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 deserts	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 deserts	det
23	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 found	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Asia	case
25	Central	Central	PROPN	_	26 Asia	compound
26	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 deserts	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 snakestones	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 snakestones	cc
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 snakestones	punct
30	snakestones	snakestone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 skulls	conj
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 snakestones	punct
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 ammonites	case
33	ammonites	ammonite	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 snakestones	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 explained	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past	people	fossils			before science	with legends such griffins and beaked dinosaur skulls or snakestones from ammonites	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fossil=Topic
2	find	participle		beaked dinosaur skulls or snakestones from ammonites not said here		the deserts of Central Asia			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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:18.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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