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title: Some fossils keep soft parts: insects trapped in amber, and woolly m… — Fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: Some fossils keep soft parts: insects trapped in amber, and woolly mammoths frozen in Siberian ice. Who acts: fossils. 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 15

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Some fossils keep soft parts: insects trapped in amber, and woolly mammoths frozen in Siberian ice.

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**Who acts:** fossils · **What happens:** keep, trap, freeze · **To what, where:** soft parts, insects, amber, woolly mammoths, Siberian ice

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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 (fossils), 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:15
# text = Some fossils keep soft parts: insects trapped in amber, and woolly mammoths frozen in Siberian ice.
# 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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
8	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Siberian	siberian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | some fossils | soft parts |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **trap** | participle |  | insects and woolly mammoths *not said here* |  | amber |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in amber=Destination |
| 3 | **freeze** | participle |  | woolly mammoths *not said here* |  | Siberian ice |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:15`.

**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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