Deep time and the story of life, sentence 1

If all of Earth's history were squeezed into one day, humans would appear only in the last few seconds before midnight.

Who acts: humans · What happens: squeeze, appear · To what, where: all

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 (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	_	8 squeezed	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 squeezed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 history	case
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 history	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Earth	case
6	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 all	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 squeezed	aux:pass
8	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 appear	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 squeezed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 squeezed	punct
13	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 appear	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 appear	aux
15	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	only	only	ADV	_	21 seconds	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 seconds	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 seconds	det
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seconds	amod
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seconds	amod
21	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 appear	obl
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 midnight	case
23	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appear	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 appear	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		all			day		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	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:geography:058-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life.lesson:1.

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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