Dinosaurs and life long ago, sentence 15
The first living things on Earth were tiny single cells in the sea.
Who acts: first living things · What happens: be · 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 (first living things), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 things | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 things | amod |
| 3 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 things | compound |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cells | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Earth | case |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 things | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cells | cop |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cells | amod |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cells | amod |
| 10 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cells | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the first living things on Earth | tiny single cells | the sea | tree rules |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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