The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 1
The blast threw hot rock into the sky that fell back and set off fires, made giant waves, and filled the air with dust and soot that darkened the sky for months or years.
Who acts: blast, sky, dust · What happens: throw, fall back, set off, make, fill, darken · To what, where: hot rock, sky, fires, giant waves, air
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 (blast, sky, dust), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 blast | det |
| 2 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rock | amod |
| 5 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sky | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sky | det |
| 8 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sky | acl:relcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 set | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 18 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 waves | amod |
| 19 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 filled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 filled | cc |
| 22 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 dust | case |
| 26 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 soot | cc |
| 28 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dust | conj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 darkened | nsubj |
| 30 | darkened | darken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dust | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sky | det |
| 32 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 darkened | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 months | case |
| 34 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 darkened | obl |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 years | cc |
| 36 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 months | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the blast | hot rock | into the sky result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer rock=Theme into sky=Result | |||
| 2 | fall back | past | the sky | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set off | past | the sky not said here | fires | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the sky not said here | giant waves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wave=Product | ||||
| 5 | fill | past | the blast not said here | the air | with dust and soot | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with dust=Instrument | |||
| 6 | darken | past | dust and soot | the sky | month | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sky=Patient |
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:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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