--- title: Fossils of the same reptiles, Mesosaurus and Lystrosaurus, are found… — Moving continents: from Pangaea to today · tree and pragmatics description: Fossils of the same reptiles, Mesosaurus and Lystrosaurus, are found on continents now separated by oceans that these animals could never have crossed. A sentence of the lesson «Moving continents: from Pangaea to today» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/10/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Moving continents: from Pangaea to today](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/) / 10 # Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 10 Fossils of the same reptiles, Mesosaurus and Lystrosaurus, are found on continents now separated by oceans that these animals could never have crossed. **What happens:** find, separate, not cross · **To what, where:** Fossils, continents, animals This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving continents: from Pangaea to today» of the geography 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:043-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today.lesson:10 # text = Fossils of the same reptiles, Mesosaurus and Lystrosaurus, are found on continents now separated by oceans that these animals could never have crossed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 043-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today.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 ×2 1 Fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 reptiles reptile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Mesosaurus Mesosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 Lystrosaurus Lystrosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 continents continent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 now now ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 16 separated separate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advcl 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 oceans ocean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obj _ _ 20 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux _ _ 25 crossed cross VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present · passive | | Fossils of the same reptiles | | continents | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **separate** | participle | | continents *not said here* | | | now | by oceans | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **cross** | could · perfect · passive | | this animals | | | | | tree rules | 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:geography:043-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today.lesson:10`. **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 ×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. 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