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title: No one knows what animals will look like in millions of years, becau… — The future of life: de-extinction, climate, cora… · tree and pragmatics
description: No one knows what animals will look like in millions of years, because evolution follows changes nobody can predict; after every great extinction in the past, life made new kinds. Who acts: one, animals, evolution, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral a
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# The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 16

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No one knows what animals will look like in millions of years, because evolution follows changes nobody can predict; after every great extinction in the past, life made new kinds.

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**Who acts:** one, animals, evolution, nobody, life · **What happens:** know, look, follow, predict, make · **To what, where:** changes, new kinds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 (one, animals, evolution, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.lesson:16
# text = No one knows what animals will look like in millions of years, because evolution follows changes nobody can predict; after every great extinction in the past, life made new kinds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.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): no change
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	evolution	evolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
17	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	predict	predict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	extinction	extinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | future | animals |  |  |  |  | like millions of years | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **follow** | present | evolution | changes |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |
| 4 | **predict** | can | nobody | changes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot change=Topic |
| 5 | **make** | past | life | new kinds |  |  | after every great extinction in the past |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kind=Product |

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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.

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**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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