--- title: Amber is tree resin that hardened over millions of years; insects st… — How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber a… · tree and pragmatics description: Amber is tree resin that hardened over millions of years; insects stuck in the sticky resin were sealed in, with tiny hairs and wing veins kept. Who acts: Amber, tree resin. 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](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/7/) [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/) / 7 # How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life, sentence 7 Amber is tree resin that hardened over millions of years; insects stuck in the sticky resin were sealed in, with tiny hairs and wing veins kept. **Who acts:** Amber, tree resin · **What happens:** be, harden, stick, seal in, keep · **To what, where:** tree resin, millions, insects, sticky resin, tiny hairs 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 (Amber, tree resin), 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:7 # text = Amber is tree resin that hardened over millions of years; insects stuck in the sticky resin were sealed in, with tiny hairs and wing veins kept. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Amber amber NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 resin resin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 hardened harden VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 resin resin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 sealed seal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 20 in in ADV RB _ 19 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 with with SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 23 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 veins vein NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Amber | tree resin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **harden** | past | tree resin | | | millions of years | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **stick** | participle | | insects *not said here* | | the sticky resin | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in resin=Destination | | 4 | **seal in** | past · passive | | insects | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **keep** | participle · passive | | tiny hairs and wing veins | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:7`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How old is it? Rock layers, rock clock…, 6](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/6/) - next →: [How old is it? 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