How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 22
Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, so no human ever met a dinosaur.
Who acts: Earth, dinosaurs, human · What happens: be, die out, meet · To what, where: dinosaur
This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history 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 (Earth, dinosaurs, human), 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 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 old | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 old | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 billion | advmod |
| 4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 billion | compound |
| 5 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 old | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 died | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dinosaurs | det |
| 10 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 died | nsubj |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 old | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 died | advmod |
| 13 | 66 | 66 | 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 | _ | 11 died | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 met | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 met | advmod |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 human | det |
| 20 | human | human | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 met | nsubj |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 met | advmod |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 old | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dinosaur | det |
| 24 | dinosaur | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 met | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Earth | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die out | past | the dinosaurs | ago, out property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | no human | a dinosaur | ever | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Co-Agent |
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:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:22.
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): 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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