Fossils, sentence 8
A fossil is the preserved remains or trace of a living thing from long ago, usually over 10,000 years old.
Who acts: fossil · What happens: preserve, be, live · To what, where: preserved remains
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fossil | det |
| 2 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remains | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 remains | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 remains | det |
| 5 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 remains | amod |
| 6 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 trace | cc |
| 8 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remains | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thing | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trace | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 ago | case |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 ago | advmod |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 thing | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 over | punct |
| 17 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 remains | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 10,000 | advmod |
| 19 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 old | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 remains | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | participle | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a fossil | the preserved remains or trace of a living thing | old, usually property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:8.
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 ×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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