--- title: The first four-legged animals crawled out of the water about 375 mil… — Deep time and the story of life · tree and pragmatics description: The first four-legged animals crawled out of the water about 375 million years ago. Who acts: first legged animals. A sentence of the lesson «Deep time and the story of life» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/15/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Deep time and the story of life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/) / 15 # Deep time and the story of life, sentence 15 The first four-legged animals crawled out of the water about 375 million years ago. **Who acts:** first legged animals · **What happens:** crawl · **To what, where:** water This is a sentence of the lesson «Deep time and the story of life» of the geography 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 (first legged animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:058-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life.lesson:15 # text = The first four-legged animals crawled out of the water about 375 million years ago. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 058-deep-time-and-the-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 ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 3 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nummod 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 legged leg ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 out out ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 13 375 375 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nummod 14 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 16 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 17 . . 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 | **crawl** | past | the first legged animals | | | the water | | ago *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Trajectory | 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:geography:058-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life.lesson:15`. **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 ×5, R8-pos-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: [Deep time and the story of life, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/14/) - next →: [Deep time and the story of life, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/)