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title: For example, a footprint left by a dinosaur in soft mud, filled with… — Rocks, minerals and fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, a footprint left by a dinosaur in soft mud, filled with sand and hardened, can still be seen today, more than 66 million years later. 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 
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# Rocks, minerals and fossils, sentence 6

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For example, a footprint left by a dinosaur in soft mud, filled with sand and hardened, can still be seen today, more than 66 million years later.

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**What happens:** leave, fill, harden, see · **To what, where:** footprint, soft mud

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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: 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:6
# text = For example, a footprint left by a dinosaur in soft mud, filled with sand and hardened, can still be seen today, more than 66 million years later.
# 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): R5-strong ×4
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	footprint	footprint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hardened	harden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | a footprint *not said here* |  |  |  | in soft mud *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in mud=Result |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with sand | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sand=Instrument |
| 3 | **harden** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | can · passive |  | a footprint |  |  | still; today | for example; late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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:6`.

**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): R5-strong ×4. **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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