BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 10

Squash Earth's 4.5 billion years into one day of 24 hours, and the dinosaurs die out about 21 minutes before midnight, while humans arrive only about 6 seconds before.

Who acts: you, dinosaurs, humans · What happens: squash, die out, arrive

This is a sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world 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 (you, dinosaurs, 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	Squash	squash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 years	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Earth	case
4	4.5	4.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	5 billion	compound
5	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Squash	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squash	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 hours	case
11	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 hours	nummod
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 day	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 die	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 die	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dinosaurs	det
16	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 die	nsubj
17	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Squash	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 die	compound:prt
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 21	advmod
20	21	21	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 minutes	nummod
21	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 die	obl:unmarked
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 midnight	case
23	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 die	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 arrive	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 arrive	mark
26	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 arrive	nsubj
27	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 die	advcl
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 6	advmod
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 6	advmod
30	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 seconds	nummod
31	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 arrive	obl:unmarked
32	before	before	ADV	_	27 arrive	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Squash	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: other
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=other, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	squash	imperative	you not said here	day; year		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	die out	present	the dinosaurs	midnight; minute		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	arrive	present	humans	second	before property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:10.

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, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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