Deep time and the story of life, sentence 0
The Earth is about 4.54 billion years old, a span so huge that geologists call it deep time.
Who acts: Earth, geologists · What happens: be, call · To what, where: Earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Deep time and the story of life» of the geography 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 (Earth, geologists), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 old | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 old | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 billion | advmod |
| 5 | 4.54 | 4.54 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 billion | compound |
| 6 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 old | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 span | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 span | det |
| 11 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 old | parataxis |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 huge | advmod |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 span | amod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 call | mark |
| 15 | geologists | geologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 call | nsubj |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 huge | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 call | obj |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 call | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 old | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Earth | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | present | geologists | Earth | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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:geography:058-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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