Deep time and the story of life, sentence 15
The first four-legged animals crawled out of the water about 375 million years ago.
Who acts: first legged animals · What happens: crawl · To what, where: water
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 (first legged animals), 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 | 6 animals | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 animals | amod |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 legged | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 four | punct |
| 5 | legged | leg | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 animals | amod |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crawled | nsubj |
| 7 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crawled | obl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 million | advmod |
| 13 | 375 | 375 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 million | compound |
| 14 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 crawled | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crawled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | past | the first legged animals | the water | ago property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Trajectory |
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:15.
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 ×5, R8-pos-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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