--- title: Plants reached land, four-legged animals crawled out, and great disa… — Deep time and the story of life · tree and pragmatics description: Plants reached land, four-legged animals crawled out, and great disasters struck: about 252 million years ago about 90% of sea species died out, and about 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 km wide hit Mexico and ended the non-bird dinosaurs, leaving room for mammals. 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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 (Plants, legged animals, great disasters, asteroid), 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:7 # text = Plants reached land, four-legged animals crawled out, and great disasters struck: about 252 million years ago about 90% of sea species died out, and about 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 km wide hit Mexico and ended the non-bird dinosaurs, leaving room for mammals. # 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 ×2, R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 5 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 legged leg ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 disasters disaster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 18 252 252 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 compound _ _ 19 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl:unmarked 21 ago ago ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 27 species species NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=28:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 32 about about ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 compound _ _ 34 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:obl:unmarked 36 ago ago ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 asteroid asteroid NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 39 about about ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod 42 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 43 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 44 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 non-bird non-bird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 leaving leave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 advcl _ _ 52 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 53 for for ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nmod _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | Plants | land | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 2 | **crawl out** | past | legged animals | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **strike** | past | great disasters | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **die out** | past | | | | | | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **hit** | past | a asteroid | Mexico | | | | ago *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mexico=Co-Theme | | 6 | **end** | past | a asteroid *not said here* | the non-bird dinosaurs | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dinosaur=Eventuality | | 7 | **leave** | gerund | a asteroid *not said here* | room | | | | for mammals | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent room=Theme for mammal=Recipient | 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:7`. **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 ×2, R5-strong ×6, 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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