--- title: That is why the curly stone you pick up on a beach is so special: it… — Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and h… · tree and pragmatics description: That is why the curly stone you pick up on a beach is so special: it is the shape of a sea animal that died long before the first person walked the Earth. Who acts: That, you, curly stone, stone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, you, curly stone, stone), 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:3 # text = That is why the curly stone you pick up on a beach is so special: it is the shape of a sea animal that died long before the first person walked the Earth. # 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): no change 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 curly curly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl:relcl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 31 amod _ _ 31 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pick up** | present | you | the curly stone *not said here* | | a beach | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | the curly stone | | | | | special *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | stone | the shape | | | | of a sea animal | tree rules | | 5 | **die** | past | a sea animal | | | | | long *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **walk** | past | the first person | the Earth | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Agent | 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](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:3`. **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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