Dinosaurs and life long ago, sentence 0

Life on Earth has changed over a very long time: the first living things were tiny single cells in the sea, and plants, animals and finally people came much, much later.

Who acts: Life, first living things, people · What happens: change over, be, come · To what, where: tiny single cells, sea

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs and life long ago» 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 (Life, first living things, people), 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	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 Earth	case
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Life	nmod
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	aux
5	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	5 changed	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	obl:unmarked
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 cells	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 things	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 things	amod
14	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 things	compound
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cells	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cells	cop
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cells	amod
18	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cells	amod
19	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 changed	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sea	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sea	det
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cells	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 plants	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 plants	cc
25	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cells	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 animals	punct
27	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 plants	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
29	finally	finally	ADV	_	30 people	advmod
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cells	conj
32	much	much	ADV	_	31 came	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 later	punct
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 later	advmod
35	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 came	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 changed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change over	present · perfect	Life on Earth			time		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	the first living things	tiny single cells and plants and animals	the sea			tree rules
3	come	past	people				late 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:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:0.

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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