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title: Ammonites were sea creatures with coiled shells, related to squid, a… — Fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: Ammonites were sea creatures with coiled shells, related to squid, and are very common fossils. Who acts: Ammonites. 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 12

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Ammonites were sea creatures with coiled shells, related to squid, and are very common fossils.

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**Who acts:** Ammonites · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sea creatures, common fossils

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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 (Ammonites), 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:12
# text = Ammonites were sea creatures with coiled shells, related to squid, and are very common fossils.
# 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): no change
1	Ammonites	ammonite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	coiled	coiled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | past | Ammonites | sea creatures and common fossils |  |  |  | with coiled shells | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Ammonites *not said here* | common fossils |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:12`.

**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): no change. **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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