Fossils, sentence 6
Because so few living things are buried just right, only a tiny fraction ever become fossils.
Who acts: tiny fraction · What happens: bury, become · To what, where: few living things, fossils
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 (tiny fraction), 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 buried | mark |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 few | advmod |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 4 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 buried | aux:pass |
| 7 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 become | advcl |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 right | advmod |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 buried | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fraction | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 fraction | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fraction | det |
| 13 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fraction | amod |
| 14 | fraction | fraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 become | nsubj |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 become | advmod |
| 16 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 become | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 become | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present · passive | few living things | right property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | present | a tiny fraction | fossils | ever | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:6.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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