--- title: Most fossils form when a dead plant or animal is quickly buried in m… — Rocks, minerals and fossils · tree and pragmatics description: Most fossils form when a dead plant or animal is quickly buried in mud or sand; its hard parts are slowly replaced by minerals and turn to stone, so fossils are found mostly in sedimentary rock. Who acts: Most fossils, minerals. A sentence of the lesson «Rocks, minerals and fossils» of the world cou --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Rocks, minerals and fossils, sentence 5 Most fossils form when a dead plant or animal is quickly buried in mud or sand; its hard parts are slowly replaced by minerals and turn to stone, so fossils are found mostly in sedimentary rock. **Who acts:** Most fossils, minerals · **What happens:** form, bury, replace, turn, find · **To what, where:** dead plant, mud, hard parts, stone, fossils, sedimentary rock 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 (Most fossils, minerals), 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:5 # text = Most fossils form when a dead plant or animal is quickly buried in mud or sand; its hard parts are slowly replaced by minerals and turn to stone, so fossils are found mostly in sedimentary rock. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 replaced replace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj 35 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 sedimentary sedimentary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obj 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **replace** | present · passive | minerals | fossil's hard parts | | | | slowly *property* | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | | 4 | **turn** | present | minerals *not said here* | | | stone | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory | | 5 | **find** | present · passive | | fossils | | sedimentary rock | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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. **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:5`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Rocks, minerals and fossils, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/4/) - next →: [Rocks, minerals and fossils, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/)