Rocks, minerals and fossils, sentence 16
Soft body parts usually rot away before they can be buried, so fossils of soft animals are rare.
Who acts: Soft body parts, fossils · What happens: rot away, bury, be · To what, where: parts
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 (Soft body parts, fossils), 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 | Soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parts | amod |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parts | compound |
| 3 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rot | nsubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 rot | advmod |
| 5 | rot | rot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 rot | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 buried | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 buried | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 buried | aux:pass |
| 11 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rot | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rare | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 rare | advmod |
| 14 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rare | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 animals | case |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 animals | amod |
| 17 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fossils | nmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 rare | cop |
| 19 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rot | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rot | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rot away | present | Soft body parts | away, usually property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bury | can · passive | parts = part | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | fossils of soft animals | rare property | tree rules |
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:16.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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