--- title: Trilobites were sea creatures with jointed legs and hard shells, dis… — How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber a… · tree and pragmatics description: Trilobites were sea creatures with jointed legs and hard shells, distant cousins of crabs and insects; they lived for about 270 million years and had some of the first complex eyes, made of crystal. Who acts: Trilobites. A sentence of the lesson «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [How old is it? 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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 (Trilobites), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life.lesson:13 # text = Trilobites were sea creatures with jointed legs and hard shells, distant cousins of crabs and insects; they lived for about 270 million years and had some of the first complex eyes, made of crystal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Trilobites trilobite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 4 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 jointed joint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 270 270 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 compound _ _ 24 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 amod _ _ 32 complex complex ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Trilobites | sea creatures and distant cousins of crabs and insects | | | | with jointed legs and hard shells | tree rules | | 2 | **joint** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | past | Trilobites *= trilobite* | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | Trilobites *= trilobite* *not said here* | some | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | | 5 | **make** | participle | | the first complex eyes *not said here* | | | | of crystal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How old is it? Rock layers, rock clock…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life/12/) - next →: [How old is it? 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