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title: Some fossils catch a moment, such as a fish with another fish in its… — Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some fossils catch a moment, such as a fish with another fish in its mouth, because fast burial froze the scene. Who acts: fossils, fast burial. A sentence of the lesson «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up, sentence 15

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Some fossils catch a moment, such as a fish with another fish in its mouth, because fast burial froze the scene.

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**Who acts:** fossils, fast burial · **What happens:** catch, freeze · **To what, where:** scene

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» of the biology 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 (fossils, fast burial), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up.lesson:15
# text = Some fossils catch a moment, such as a fish with another fish in its mouth, because fast burial froze the scene.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present | some fossils |  |  |  | moment |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **freeze** | past | fast burial | the scene |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient scene=Result |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up.lesson:15`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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