Fossils, sentence 2
Most fossils form when a dead animal or plant is buried quickly in mud or sand, before it rots or gets eaten.
Who acts: Most fossils, fossil · What happens: form, bury, rot, eat · To what, where: dead animal, mud
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 (Most fossils, fossil), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 fossils | amod |
| 2 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 form | nsubj |
| 3 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 buried | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animal | amod |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 plant | cc |
| 9 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 animal | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 buried | aux:pass |
| 11 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 form | advcl |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 buried | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mud | case |
| 14 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buried | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 sand | cc |
| 16 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mud | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 buried | punct |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 rots | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rots | nsubj |
| 20 | rots | rot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 buried | advcl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 eaten | cc |
| 22 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 eaten | aux:pass |
| 23 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 rots | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 form | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | Most fossils | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bury | present · passive | a dead animal or plant | mud or sand | quickly property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in mud=Destination | |||
| 3 | rot | present | fossil | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | eat | present · passive | fossil not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
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:2.
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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-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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