--- title: Squash Earth's 4.5 billion years into one day of 24 hours, and the d… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics description: Squash Earth's 4.5 billion years into one day of 24 hours, and the dinosaurs die out about 21 minutes before midnight, while humans arrive only about 6 seconds before. Who acts: you, dinosaurs, humans. 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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 (you, dinosaurs, humans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:10 # text = Squash Earth's 4.5 billion years into one day of 24 hours, and the dinosaurs die out about 21 minutes before midnight, while humans arrive only about 6 seconds before. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Squash squash VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 4.5 4.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 5 compound _ _ 5 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 21 21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 before before ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 arrive arrive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 before before ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=other, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squash** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | day; year | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **die out** | present | the dinosaurs | | | | midnight; minute | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **arrive** | present | humans | | | | second | before *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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