--- title: Deep time plays tricks. — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics description: Deep time plays tricks. Who acts: Deep time. A sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/6/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/) / 6 # BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 6 Deep time plays tricks. **Who acts:** Deep time · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** tricks This is a sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world 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 (Deep time), 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:6 # text = Deep time plays tricks. # 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 Deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 4 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present | Deep time | tricks | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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: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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/5/) - next →: [BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/)