The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 4
With the big dinosaurs gone, mammals spread and grew to every size, and our own ancestors were among them, so in a way we owe our lives to that rock from space.
Who acts: big dinosaurs, mammals, own ancestors · What happens: go, spread, grow, be, owe · To what, where: lives, way
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, own ancestors), 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 Number=Plur Person=3 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 size | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 size | det |
| 13 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 them | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 were | cc |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ancestors | amod |
| 18 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 owe | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grew | conj |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 were | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 owe | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 owe | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 owe | obl |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 owe | nsubj |
| 28 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | conj |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 lives | nmod:poss |
| 30 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 owe | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 rock | case |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 rock | det |
| 33 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 owe | obl |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 space | case |
| 35 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rock | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | 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 | to every size | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | past | mammals not said here | among mammals = mammal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location | ||||
| 5 | owe | present | our own ancestors | our lives | a way | to that rock from space goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent life=Theme to rock=Goal |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-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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