The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 5

An asteroid about 10 kilometres wide hit Chicxulub in Mexico 66 million years ago at about 20 kilometres a second; the crater, about 180 kilometres wide, is now buried under land and sea.

Who acts: asteroid · What happens: hit, bury · To what, where: Chicxulub, Mexico, crater, land

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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 asteroid	det
2	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hit	nsubj
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 10	advmod
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 kilometres	nummod
5	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wide	obl
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 asteroid	amod
7	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Chicxulub	Chicxulub	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hit	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Mexico	case
10	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hit	obl
11	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 million	compound
12	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ago	obl:unmarked
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 hit	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 kilometres	case
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 20	advmod
17	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 kilometres	nummod
18	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hit	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 second	det
20	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kilometres	nmod:unmarked
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 buried	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 crater	det
23	crater	crater	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 buried	nsubj:pass
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crater	punct
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 180	advmod
26	180	180	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 kilometres	nummod
27	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wide	obl
28	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 crater	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crater	punct
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 buried	aux:pass
31	now	now	ADV	_	32 buried	advmod
32	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hit	parataxis
33	under	under	ADP	_	34 land	case
34	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 buried	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sea	cc
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 land	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 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	Chicxulub		Mexico		at 20 kilometres a second; ago property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent chicxulub=Theme in mexico=Destination
2	bury	present · passive		the crater		land and sea	now		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under land=Destination

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:5.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×7, 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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