BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 22
On a timeline of Earth's 4.5 billion years squashed into 24 hours, humans appear only about 6 seconds before midnight.
Who acts: humans · What happens: squash, appear · To what, where: billion years, timeline
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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 timeline | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 timeline | det |
| 3 | timeline | timeline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appear | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 5 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 years | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Earth | case |
| 7 | 4.5 | 4.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 billion | compound |
| 8 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 timeline | nmod |
| 10 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 years | acl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 hours | case |
| 12 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 hours | nummod |
| 13 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 squashed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 timeline | punct |
| 15 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 appear | nsubj |
| 16 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 6 | advmod |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 6 | advmod |
| 19 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 seconds | nummod |
| 20 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 appear | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 midnight | case |
| 22 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appear | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | participle | Earth's billion years not said here | hour | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | humans | a timeline of Earth's billion years | midnight; second | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on timeline=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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.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): R5-strong ×2. 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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