--- title: If a fossil lies between two ash layers, one 67 and one 65 million y… — How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber a… · tree and pragmatics description: If a fossil lies between two ash layers, one 67 and one 65 million years old, the animal lived in between. Who acts: fossil, animal. 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 with its dependency --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life, sentence 2 If a fossil lies between two ash layers, one 67 and one 65 million years old, the animal lived in between. **Who acts:** fossil, animal · **What happens:** lie, live · **To what, where:** two ash layers 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 (fossil, animal), 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:2 # text = If a fossil lies between two ash layers, one 67 and one 65 million years old, the animal lived in between. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 5 between between ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 ash ash NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 compound _ _ 11 67 67 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 14 65 65 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 15 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 21 obl _ _ 23 between between ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | a fossil | | | two ash layers | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between layer=Location | | 2 | **live** | past | the animal | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life.lesson:2`. **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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How old is it? Rock layers, rock clock…, 1](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/1/) - next →: [How old is it? 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