The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 0
About 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 kilometres wide, as wide as a big city, hit what is now Mexico at about 20 kilometres a second and left the Chicxulub crater, about 180 kilometres across.
Who acts: asteroid · What happens: hit, be, leave · To what, where: Mexico, Chicxulub crater
This is a sentence of the lesson «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» of the biology 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 (asteroid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 million | advmod |
| 2 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 million | compound |
| 3 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 20 hit | advmod |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 asteroid | det |
| 7 | asteroid | asteroid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | nsubj |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 10 | advmod |
| 9 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 kilometres | nummod |
| 10 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wide | obl |
| 11 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 asteroid | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wide | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 wide | advmod |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 18 city | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 city | amod |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asteroid | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hit | punct |
| 20 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 Mexico | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Mexico | cop |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | _ | 24 Mexico | advmod |
| 24 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 kilometres | case |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 20 | advmod |
| 27 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 kilometres | nummod |
| 28 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hit | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 second | det |
| 30 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kilometres | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 left | cc |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hit | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 crater | det |
| 34 | Chicxulub | Chicxulub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 crater | compound |
| 35 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 left | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 kilometres | punct |
| 37 | about | about | ADV | _ | 38 180 | advmod |
| 38 | 180 | 180 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 kilometres | nummod |
| 39 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 across | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | across | across | ADV | _ | 32 left | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | a asteroid as a big city | at 20 kilometres a second; ago property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at kilometre=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Mexico | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | a asteroid as a big city not said here | the Chicxulub crater | across property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crater=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, 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:biology:271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died.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 ×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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