The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 16
No one knows what animals will look like in millions of years, because evolution follows changes nobody can predict; after every great extinction in the past, life made new kinds.
Who acts: one, animals, evolution, nobody, life · What happens: know, look, follow, predict, make · To what, where: changes, new kinds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 (one, animals, evolution, nobody), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 look | obl |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | aux |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 millions | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 millions | case |
| 10 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 millions | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 follows | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 follows | mark |
| 15 | evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 follows | nsubj |
| 16 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | advcl |
| 17 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 follows | obj |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 predict | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 predict | aux |
| 20 | predict | predict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 changes | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 extinction | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 extinction | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 extinction | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 extinction | amod |
| 25 | extinction | extinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 past | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 past | det |
| 28 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 extinction | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 follows | conj |
| 32 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 kinds | amod |
| 33 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 made | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | future | animals | like millions of years | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | evolution | changes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme | ||||
| 4 | predict | can | nobody | changes not said here | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot change=Topic | ||||
| 5 | make | past | life | new kinds | after every great extinction in the past | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kind=Product |
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:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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