The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 4

Nobody knows exactly what life will look like in millions of years, but the next hundred years depend a lot on what people choose to do now.

Who acts: Nobody, life, next hundred years, people · What happens: know, look, depend, choose, do · To what, where: lot · 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 (Nobody, life, next hundred years, people), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 look	obl
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 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	_	19 depend	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 depend	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 years	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 years	amod
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 depend	nsubj
19	depend	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lot	det
21	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 depend	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 what	case
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 depend	obl
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 choose	nsubj
25	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 choose	xcomp
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 do	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	future	life			like millions of years; exactly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	depend	present	the next hundred years	a lot			tree rules
4	choose	present	people				tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	people not said here		now		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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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