Deep time and the story of life, sentence 19
Geologists call the vast span of Earth's history deep time, far longer than human history; humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago.
Who acts: Geologists, humans · What happens: call, appear · To what, where: vast span · 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 (Geologists, 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 | Geologists | geologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 span | det |
| 4 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 span | amod |
| 5 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 history | case |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 history | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Earth | case |
| 9 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 span | nmod |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 span | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 history | punct |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 longer | advmod |
| 14 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 history | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 history | case |
| 16 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 history | amod |
| 17 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 appeared | punct |
| 19 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 appeared | nsubj |
| 20 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 call | parataxis |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 about | advmod |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 300,000 | advmod |
| 23 | 300,000 | 300,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 20 appeared | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | Geologists | the vast span of Earth's history and deep time and human history | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent span=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | humans | ago property | 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:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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