--- title: Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into one day and the story is amaz… — How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber a… · tree and pragmatics description: Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into one day and the story is amazing: for most of the day life is only tiny microbes, dinosaurs arrive at about 10.40 at night, vanish at about 11.40, and people turn up a few seconds before midnight. Who acts: you, story, tiny microbes, people. A sentence of the l --- [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/3/) [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? Rock layers, rock clock…](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/) / 3 # How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life, sentence 3 Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into one day and the story is amazing: for most of the day life is only tiny microbes, dinosaurs arrive at about 10.40 at night, vanish at about 11.40, and people turn up a few seconds before midnight. **Who acts:** you, story, tiny microbes, people · **What happens:** squeeze, be, arrive, vanish, turn up · **To what, where:** 10.40, 11.40 This is a sentence of the lesson «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life» of the biology 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 (you, story, tiny microbes, people), 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:3 # text = Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into one day and the story is amazing: for most of the day life is only tiny microbes, dinosaurs arrive at about 10.40 at night, vanish at about 11.40, and people turn up a few seconds before midnight. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Squeeze squeeze VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 4.5 4.5 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 1 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 amazing amazing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 17 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 21 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 28 arrive arrive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 10.40 10.40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 vanish vanish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 36 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 11.40 11.40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 43 up up ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:obj 47 before before ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squeeze** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | day; year | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | the story | | | | | amazing *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | for tiny microbes; most the day of life *obl* | tree rules | | 4 | **arrive** | present | tiny microbes | | | 10.40 at night | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **vanish** | present | tiny microbes *not said here* | | | 11.40 | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **turn up** | present | people | | | | second | | vn appear-48.1.1 «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](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:3`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How old is it? Rock layers, rock clock…, 2](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/2/) - next →: [How old is it? 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