Fossils, sentence 3
Layer after layer piles on top, the mud slowly turns to rock, and minerals soak into the bones and shells.
Who acts: Layer, mud, minerals · What happens: pile, turn, soak · To what, where: rock, bones
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 (Layer, mud, minerals), 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 | Layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piles | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 layer | case |
| 3 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Layer | nmod |
| 4 | piles | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Layer | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turns | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mud | det |
| 9 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turns | nsubj |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 turns | advmod |
| 11 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 piles | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 rock | case |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turns | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 soak | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 soak | cc |
| 16 | minerals | mineral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 soak | nsubj |
| 17 | soak | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 turns | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 bones | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bones | det |
| 20 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 soak | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shells | cc |
| 22 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bones | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile | present | Layer after layer | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | present | the mud | rock | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to rock=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | soak | present | minerals | the bones and shells | vn other_cos-45.4 «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:3.
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): 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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