The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 12

With the big dinosaurs gone, mammals spread and grew big, and within a few million years there were mammals of every size, our ancestors among them.

Who acts: big dinosaurs, mammals · What happens: go, spread, grow, be

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 (big dinosaurs, mammals), 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	With	with	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dinosaurs	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dinosaurs	amod
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	nsubj
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 spread	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct
7	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	nsubj
8	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grew	cc
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spread	conj
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 were	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 were	cc
14	within	within	ADP	_	18 years	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 years	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 years	amod
17	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 were	obl
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 were	expl
20	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spread	conj
21	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 were	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 size	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 size	det
24	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mammals	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ancestors	punct
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ancestors	nmod:poss
27	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 mammals	appos
28	among	among	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ancestors	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	participle	the big dinosaurs				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spread	past	mammals				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	mammals not said here			big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be	past	mammals of every size	there	year		vn exist-47.1 «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, 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:12.

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 ×3, 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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