--- title: Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and the dinosaurs died out 66 m… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics description: Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, so no human ever met a dinosaur. Who acts: Earth, dinosaurs, human. A sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/22/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [How we got here: the big steps on one…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/) / 22 # How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 22 Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, so no human ever met a dinosaur. **Who acts:** Earth, dinosaurs, human · **What happens:** be, die out, meet · **To what, where:** dinosaur This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history 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 (Earth, dinosaurs, human), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:22 # text = Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, so no human ever met a dinosaur. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 4.5 4.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 compound _ _ 5 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 out out ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 14 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 ago ago ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 human human NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 22 advmod _ _ 22 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 . . 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 | **is** | present | Earth | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **die out** | past | the dinosaurs | | | | | ago, out *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **meet** | past | no human | a dinosaur | | | ever | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Co-Agent | 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:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:22`. **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): 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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