Rocks, minerals and fossils, sentence 9
Sedimentary rock forms from layers of sand, mud or shells pressed together; sandstone, limestone and chalk are sedimentary rocks.
Who acts: Sedimentary rock forms · What happens: press, be · To what, where: shells, sedimentary rocks
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 (Sedimentary rock forms), 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 | Sedimentary | sedimentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 forms | amod |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forms | compound |
| 3 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rocks | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 layers | case |
| 5 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forms | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sand | case |
| 7 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 layers | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mud | punct |
| 9 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sand | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 shells | cc |
| 11 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forms | conj |
| 12 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 shells | acl |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 pressed | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sandstone | punct |
| 15 | sandstone | sandstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rocks | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 limestone | punct |
| 17 | limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sandstone | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 chalk | cc |
| 19 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sandstone | conj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 rocks | cop |
| 21 | sedimentary | sedimentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rocks | amod |
| 22 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 rocks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | participle | shells not said here | together property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Sedimentary rock forms from layers of sand and mud or shells | sedimentary rocks | 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:9.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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