--- title: Sea fossils are found at the top of Mount Everest, because that rock… — How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber a… · tree and pragmatics description: Sea fossils are found at the top of Mount Everest, because that rock formed under the sea and was pushed up as continents collided; mountains still rise a few millimetres a year. Who acts: rock, continents, mountains. A sentence of the lesson «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the l --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life/15/) [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/) / [How old is it? Rock layers, rock clock…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life/) / 15 # How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life, sentence 15 Sea fossils are found at the top of Mount Everest, because that rock formed under the sea and was pushed up as continents collided; mountains still rise a few millimetres a year. **Who acts:** rock, continents, mountains · **What happens:** find, form, push up, collide, rise · **To what, where:** Sea fossils, top, sea, few millimetres This is a sentence of the lesson «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life» 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 (rock, continents, mountains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life.lesson:15 # text = Sea fossils are found at the top of Mount Everest, because that rock formed under the sea and was pushed up as continents collided; mountains still rise a few millimetres a year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life.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 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 Mount mount NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Everest everest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 formed form VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 16 under under ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 continents continent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 collided collide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 27 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 rise rise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 millimetres millimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present · passive | | Sea fossils | | the top of Mount Everest | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at top=Asset | | 2 | **form** | past | that rock | | | the sea | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Location | | 3 | **push up** | past · passive | that rock *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP» | | 4 | **collide** | past | continents | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **rise** | present | mountains | a few millimetres | | | still; year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location millimetre=Theme | 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. 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