--- title: The same fossil reptiles turn up on continents now oceans apart, and… — Moving continents: from Pangaea to today · tree and pragmatics description: The same fossil reptiles turn up on continents now oceans apart, and Britain has coal from tropical swamps and Antarctica has fossil forests, because those lands once lay somewhere else. Who acts: same fossil reptiles, Britain, Antarctica, lands. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same fossil reptiles, Britain, Antarctica, lands), 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:3 # text = The same fossil reptiles turn up on continents now oceans apart, and Britain has coal from tropical swamps and Antarctica has fossil forests, because those lands once lay somewhere else. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 reptiles reptile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 continents continent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 oceans ocean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 apart apart ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 16 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 swamps swamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 30 advmod _ _ 30 lay lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 31 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 30 advmod _ _ 32 else else ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **turn up** | present | the same fossil reptiles | | | continents oceans | | apart *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=Location | | 2 | **have** | present | Britain | coal | | tropical swamps | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | Antarctica | fossil forests | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient | | 4 | **lay** | past | that lands | | | | | once, somewhere *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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): 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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