--- title: Life on Earth has changed over a very long time: the first living th… — Dinosaurs and life long ago · tree and pragmatics description: Life on Earth has changed over a very long time: the first living things were tiny single cells in the sea, and plants, animals and finally people came much, much later. Who acts: Life, first living things, people. 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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 (Life, first living things, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:0 # text = Life on Earth has changed over a very long time: the first living things were tiny single cells in the sea, and plants, animals and finally people came much, much later. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.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 1 Life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 over over ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 14 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 finally finally ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 32 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 much much ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change over** | present · perfect | Life on Earth | | | | time | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | past | the first living things | tiny single cells and plants and animals | | the sea | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | past | people | | | | | late *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:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:0`. **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. **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: [Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/18/) - next →: [Dinosaurs and life long ago, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/)