Dinosaurs and life long ago, sentence 10
Footprints, eggs and droppings can become fossils as well as bones.
Who acts: Footprints · What happens: become · To what, where: fossils
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs and life long ago» 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 (Footprints), 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 | Footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 become | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eggs | punct |
| 3 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Footprints | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 droppings | cc |
| 5 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Footprints | conj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 become | aux |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 become | xcomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 7 become | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 bones | case |
| 12 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fossils | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | can | Footprints and eggs and droppings | fossils and bones | 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:world:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:10.
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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