How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life, sentence 11
For billions of years, all life on Earth was microscopic.
Who acts: life · What happens: be
This is a sentence of the lesson «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life» of the biology 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 (life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 billions | case |
| 2 | billions | billion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 microscopic | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 billions | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 microscopic | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 life | det |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 microscopic | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Earth | case |
| 9 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 life | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 microscopic | cop |
| 11 | microscopic | microscopic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 microscopic | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all life on Earth | for billions of years; microscopic property | tree rules |
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, 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:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life.lesson:11.
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.
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