Dinosaurs and life long ago, sentence 9
A fossil is the remains or trace of a living thing turned into stone.
Who acts: fossil · What happens: be, turn · To what, where: remains, living thing, stone
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 (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 | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thing | compound |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trace | nmod |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 thing | acl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remains | 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 | is a | present | a fossil | the remains or trace of a living thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | participle | a living thing not said here | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into stone=Trajectory |
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: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): no change. 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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