The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 6

The blast was billions of times stronger than the biggest bomb ever made; it started fires, made giant waves and darkened the sky for months or years.

Who acts: blast · What happens: be, make, start, darken · To what, where: biggest bomb, fires, giant waves, sky

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), 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	7 stronger	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stronger	cop
4	billions	billion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stronger	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 times	case
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 billions	nmod
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 bomb	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bomb	det
10	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 bomb	amod
11	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stronger	obl
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 made	advmod
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bomb	acl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 started	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 started	nsubj
16	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stronger	parataxis
17	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 started	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 started	conj
20	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 waves	amod
21	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 made	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 darkened	cc
23	darkened	darken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 started	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sky	det
25	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 darkened	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 months	case
27	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 darkened	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 years	cc
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 months	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stronger	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the blast			than the biggest bomb; billions of times obl; strong property	tree rules
2	make	participle		the biggest bomb not said here	ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	start	past	blast	fires			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality
4	make	past	blast not said here	giant waves			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wave=Product
5	darken	past	blast not said here	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:6.

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 ×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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