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title: Geologists call the vast span of Earth's history deep time, far long… — Deep time and the story of life · tree and pragmatics
description: Geologists call the vast span of Earth's history deep time, far longer than human history; humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago. Who acts: Geologists, humans. 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 
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# Deep time and the story of life, sentence 19

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Geologists call the vast span of Earth's history deep time, far longer than human history; humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago.

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**Who acts:** Geologists, humans · **What happens:** call, appear · **To what, where:** vast span · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Geologists, humans), 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:19
# text = Geologists call the vast span of Earth's history deep time, far longer than human history; humans appeared only about 300,000 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Geologists	geologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
19	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	300,000	300,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Geologists | the vast span of Earth's history and deep time and human history |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent span=Recipient |
| 2 | **appear** | past | humans |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:19`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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