--- title: Tiny sunlight-using microbes slowly filled the air with oxygen from… — Deep time and the story of life · tree and pragmatics description: Tiny sunlight-using microbes slowly filled the air with oxygen from about 2.4 billion years ago; about 540 million years ago animals with shells, eyes and legs burst onto the scene in the Cambrian explosion. Who acts: Tiny using microbes, animals. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiny using microbes, 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:6 # text = Tiny sunlight-using microbes slowly filled the air with oxygen from about 2.4 billion years ago; about 540 million years ago animals with shells, eyes and legs burst onto the scene in the Cambrian explosion. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 2 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 4 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 amod _ _ 5 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 14 2.4 2.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 7 obl _ _ 15 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 ago ago ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 540 540 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 compound _ _ 21 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 ago ago ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 24 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 31 burst burst VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 32 onto onto ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 Cambrian cambrian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 explosion explosion NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod 39 . . 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 | **use** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fill** | past | Tiny using microbes | the air | | 2.4 | | with oxygen; slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with oxygen=Instrument | | 3 | **burst** | past | animals with shells and eyes and legs | | | the scene | | in the Cambrian explosion; ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in explosion=Location | 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:6`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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