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title: Soft body parts usually rot away before they can be buried, so fossi… — Rocks, minerals and fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: Soft body parts usually rot away before they can be buried, so fossils of soft animals are rare. Who acts: Soft body parts, fossils. 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.
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# Rocks, minerals and fossils, sentence 16

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Soft body parts usually rot away before they can be buried, so fossils of soft animals are rare.

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**Who acts:** Soft body parts, fossils · **What happens:** rot away, bury, be · **To what, where:** parts

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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: who acts (Soft body parts, fossils), 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:16
# text = Soft body parts usually rot away before they can be buried, so fossils of soft animals are rare.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rot	rot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **rot away** | present | Soft body parts |  |  |  |  | away, usually *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bury** | can · passive |  | parts *= part* |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | fossils of soft animals |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | 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:world:061-rocks-minerals-fossils.lesson:16`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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