Rocks, minerals and fossils, sentence 14
A fossil is the remains or trace of a living thing from long ago preserved in rock.
Who acts: fossil · What happens: be, preserve · To what, where: remains, living thing, rock
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rocks, minerals and fossils» of the world 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 | 5 remains | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remains | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 remains | det |
| 5 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 trace | cc |
| 7 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remains | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thing | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | living | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thing | amod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remains | nmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 long | case |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 preserved | obl |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 preserved | advmod |
| 15 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 thing | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 rock | case |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 preserved | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fossil | the remains or trace | of a living thing | tree rules | |||
| 2 | preserve | participle | a living thing not said here | rock | ago property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent from long=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:world:061-rocks-minerals-fossils.lesson:14.
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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