--- title: In Whitby in England, people once carved snake heads on ammonites an… — Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and h… · tree and pragmatics description: In Whitby in England, people once carved snake heads on ammonites and sold them as snakes turned to stone. Who acts: people, snakes. 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 dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Fossils: how a living thing turns to s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/) / 8 # Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up, sentence 8 In Whitby in England, people once carved snake heads on ammonites and sold them as snakes turned to stone. **Who acts:** people, snakes · **What happens:** carve, sell, turn · **To what, where:** snake heads, Whitby, Ammonites, stone 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 (people, snakes), 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:8 # text = In Whitby in England, people once carved snake heads on ammonites and sold them as snakes turned to stone. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Whitby Whitby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj 7 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 advmod _ _ 8 carved carve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 9 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 ammonites ammonite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **carve** | past | people | snake heads | | Whitby in England | | on ammonites; once *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in whitby=Destination | | 2 | **sell** | past | people *not said here* | Ammonites *= ammonite* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | past | snakes | | | stone | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to 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](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:8`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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