--- title: It is a great story, but DNA breaks down over time, and after 66 mil… — The future of life: de-extinction, climate, cora… · tree and pragmatics description: It is a great story, but DNA breaks down over time, and after 66 million years no usable dinosaur DNA is left. Who acts: rex, DNA. 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 with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos/2/) [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/) / [The future of life: de-extinction, cli…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos/) / 2 # The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 2 It is a great story, but DNA breaks down over time, and after 66 million years no usable dinosaur DNA is left. **Who acts:** rex, DNA · **What happens:** be, break down, leave · **To what, where:** great story, usable dinosaur DNA 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 (rex, DNA), 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:2 # text = It is a great story, but DNA breaks down over time, and after 66 million years no usable dinosaur DNA is left. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 10 down down ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 15 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 compound _ _ 17 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 20 usable usable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | rex | a great story | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **break down** | present | DNA | | | | time | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **leave** | present · passive | | no usable dinosaur DNA | | | year | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.lesson:2`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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. 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