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title: Trace fossils record what animals did, such as footprints, burrows a… — Fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: Trace fossils record what animals did, such as footprints, burrows and even fossil dung. Who acts: Trace fossils, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Fossils» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fossils, sentence 11

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Trace fossils record what animals did, such as footprints, burrows and even fossil dung.

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**Who acts:** Trace fossils, animals · **What happens:** record, do

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils» 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: who acts (Trace fossils, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:057-fossils.lesson:11
# text = Trace fossils record what animals did, such as footprints, burrows and even fossil dung.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 057-fossils.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	Trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	record	record	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	footprints	footprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	burrows	burrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | present | Trace fossils |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | animals and footprints and burrows and fossil dung |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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:057-fossils.lesson:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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