--- title: If Earth's 4.54 billion years were one day, which came first? — Deep time and the story of life · tree and pragmatics description: If Earth's 4.54 billion years were one day, which came first? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 58 «Deep time and the story of life» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Deep time and the story of life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life If Earth's 4.54 billion years were one day, which came first? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** billion years · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** one day This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 58 «Deep time and the story of life» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t2:1 # text = If Earth's 4.54 billion years were one day, which came first? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 4.54 4.54 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 compound _ _ 5 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Earth's billion years | one day | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | | | | | | first *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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Plants on land, just after midnight ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t2:o1:1 # text = Plants on land, just after midnight 1 Plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Dinosaurs, at breakfast time ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t2:o2:1 # text = Dinosaurs, at breakfast time 1 Dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Humans, at noon ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t2:o3:1 # text = Humans, at noon 1 Humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Microbes, early in the day ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t2:o4:1 # text = Microbes, early in the day 1 Microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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