The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 15

Shooting stars are tiny bits of space dust, usually smaller than a grain of sand, burning up high in the air; many tonnes of dust fall on Earth every day.

Who acts: Shooting stars, tiny bits, many tonnes · What happens: shoot, be, burn up, fall · To what, where: tiny bits, air, Earth

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 (Shooting stars, tiny bits, many tonnes), 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	Shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stars	amod
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bits	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bits	cop
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bits	amod
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 dust	case
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dust	compound
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bits	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smaller	punct
10	usually	usually	ADV	_	11 smaller	advmod
11	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bits	acl
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 grain	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 grain	det
14	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smaller	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sand	case
16	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grain	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 burning	punct
18	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 bits	acl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 burning	compound:prt
20	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 burning	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 air	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burning	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tonnes	punct
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tonnes	amod
26	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fall	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 dust	case
28	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tonnes	nmod
29	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bits	parataxis
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 Earth	case
31	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 fall	obl
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fall	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	gerund						vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Shooting stars	tiny bits			of space dust	tree rules
3	burn up	gerund	tiny bits not said here		the air		high property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
4	fall	present	many tonnes of dust		Earth	day		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location

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:15.

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): 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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