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title: Most fossils form when a dead plant or animal is quickly buried in m… — Fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: Most fossils form when a dead plant or animal is quickly buried in mud or sand, which later turns to rock. Who acts: Most fossils, mud. 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 9

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Most fossils form when a dead plant or animal is quickly buried in mud or sand, which later turns to rock.

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**Who acts:** Most fossils, mud · **What happens:** form, bury, turn · **To what, where:** dead plant, mud, rock

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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 (Most fossils, mud), 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:9
# text = Most fossils form when a dead plant or animal is quickly buried in mud or sand, which later turns to rock.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_
22	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | Most fossils |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bury** | present · passive |  | a dead plant or animal |  | mud or sand |  | quickly *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in mud=Destination |
| 3 | **turn** | present | mud or sand |  |  | rock |  | late *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to rock=Trajectory |

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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:9`.

**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 ×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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