How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life, sentence 9

If Earth's 4.5 billion years were one day, dinosaurs would arrive at about 10.40 at night, vanish at about 11.40, and humans would appear a few seconds before midnight.

Who acts: billion years, dinosaurs, humans · What happens: be, arrive, vanish, appear · To what, where: one day, 10.40, 11.40

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 (billion years, dinosaurs, humans), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 day	mark
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 years	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Earth	case
4	4.5	4.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	5 billion	compound
5	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 day	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 day	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrive	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
11	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 arrive	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 arrive	aux
13	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 10.40	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 10.40	advmod
16	10.40	10.40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 arrive	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 10.40	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 vanish	punct
20	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 arrive	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 11.40	case
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 11.40	advmod
23	11.40	11.40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 vanish	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 appear	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 appear	cc
26	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 appear	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 appear	aux
28	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 arrive	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 seconds	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 seconds	amod
31	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 appear	obj
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 midnight	case
33	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appear	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 arrive	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	Earth's billion years	one day			tree rules
2	arrive	would	dinosaurs		10.40 at night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	vanish	infinitive	dinosaurs not said here		11.40		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	appear	would	humans			midnight; second	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:9.

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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