--- title: Billions of years ago, cyanobacteria made the first oxygen in the ai… — The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad · tree and pragmatics description: Billions of years ago, cyanobacteria made the first oxygen in the air by photosynthesis, and the rocks they built, called stromatolites, still grow in Shark Bay, Australia. Who acts: cyanobacteria, rocks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cyanobacteria, rocks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.lesson:17 # text = Billions of years ago, cyanobacteria made the first oxygen in the air by photosynthesis, and the rocks they built, called stromatolites, still grow in Shark Bay, Australia. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Billions billion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 cyanobacteria cyanobacteria NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 photosynthesis photosynthesis NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 24 stromatolites stromatolite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 Shark Shark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Bay Bay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | cyanobacteria | the first oxygen | | the air | | by photosynthesis; ago *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oxygen=Product | | 2 | **build** | past | rocks *= rock* | the rocks and stromatolites *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rock=Product | | 3 | **call** | participle | | stromatolites *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | present | the rocks and stromatolites | | | Shark Bay | still | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bay=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.lesson:17`. **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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