Deep time and the story of life, sentence 6

Tiny sunlight-using microbes slowly filled the air with oxygen from about 2.4 billion years ago; about 540 million years ago animals with shells, eyes and legs burst onto the scene in the Cambrian explosion.

Who acts: Tiny using microbes, animals · What happens: use, fill, burst · To what, where: air, 2.4, scene

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 (Tiny using microbes, 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	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 microbes	amod
2	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 using	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sunlight	punct
4	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 microbes	amod
5	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 filled	nsubj
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 filled	advmod
7	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 filled	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 oxygen	case
11	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 filled	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 2.4	case
13	about	about	ADV	_	15 billion	advmod
14	2.4	2.4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	7 filled	obl
15	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ago	obl:unmarked
17	ago	ago	ADV	_	14 2.4	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 burst	punct
19	about	about	ADV	_	21 million	advmod
20	540	540	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 million	compound
21	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ago	obl:unmarked
23	ago	ago	ADV	_	31 burst	advmod
24	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 burst	nsubj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 shells	case
26	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 animals	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eyes	punct
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shells	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 legs	cc
30	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shells	conj
31	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 filled	parataxis
32	onto	onto	ADP	_	34 scene	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 scene	det
34	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 burst	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 explosion	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 explosion	det
37	Cambrian	cambrian	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 explosion	compound
38	explosion	explosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 burst	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 filled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	gerund					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fill	past	Tiny using microbes	the air	2.4	with oxygen; slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with oxygen=Instrument
3	burst	past	animals with shells and eyes and legs		the scene	in the Cambrian explosion; ago 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:6.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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