---
title: Fossils are found mostly in sedimentary rock, because living things… — Rocks, minerals and fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: Fossils are found mostly in sedimentary rock, because living things are buried in mud and sand. A sentence of the lesson «Rocks, minerals and fossils» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/15/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Rocks, minerals and fossils](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/) / 15

# Rocks, minerals and fossils, sentence 15

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fossils are found mostly in sedimentary rock, because living things are buried in mud and sand.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** find, live, bury · **To what, where:** Fossils, sedimentary rock, living things, mud

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rocks, minerals and fossils» of the world 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:061-rocks-minerals-fossils.lesson:15
# text = Fossils are found mostly in sedimentary rock, because living things are buried in mud and sand.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 061-rocks-minerals-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	Fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	sedimentary	sedimentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | Fossils |  | sedimentary rock |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bury** | present · passive |  | living things |  | mud and sand |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in mud=Destination |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:world:061-rocks-minerals-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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Rocks, minerals and fossils, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/14/)
- next →: [Rocks, minerals and fossils, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/16/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/)