Deep time and the story of life, sentence 13
About 540 million years ago, many animal groups with shells, eyes and legs appeared fairly quickly, in the Cambrian explosion.
Who acts: many animal groups · What happens: appear · To what, where: Cambrian explosion
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 (many animal groups), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 million | advmod |
| 2 | 540 | 540 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 million | compound |
| 3 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 16 appeared | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ago | punct |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 groups | amod |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 groups | compound |
| 9 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 shells | case |
| 11 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 groups | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eyes | punct |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shells | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 legs | cc |
| 15 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 groups | conj |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 18 quickly | advmod |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 appeared | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 explosion | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 explosion | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 explosion | det |
| 22 | Cambrian | cambrian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 explosion | compound |
| 23 | explosion | explosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | many animal groups with shells and eyes and legs | the Cambrian explosion | ago, quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in explosion=Location |
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:13.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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