The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 7
All over the world a thin clay layer rich in iridium marks the end of the dinosaurs; iridium is rare on Earth but common in asteroids, a clue found by Luis and Walter Alvarez, father and son, in 1980.
Who acts: thin clay layer, iridium · What happens: mark, be, find · To what, where: end, world, Earth, asteroids, clue, 1980
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 (thin clay layer, iridium), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 12 marks | advmod |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 world | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marks | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 layer | det |
| 6 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 layer | amod |
| 7 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 layer | compound |
| 8 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marks | nsubj |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 layer | amod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 iridium | case |
| 11 | iridium | iridium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rich | obl |
| 12 | marks | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marks | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dinosaurs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dinosaurs | det |
| 17 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 rare | punct |
| 19 | iridium | iridium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rare | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 rare | cop |
| 21 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 marks | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 Earth | case |
| 23 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 rare | obl |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 common | cc |
| 25 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rare | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 asteroids | case |
| 27 | asteroids | asteroid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 common | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 clue | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 clue | det |
| 30 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 asteroids | conj |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 clue | acl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 Luis | case |
| 33 | Luis | Luis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 found | obl:agent |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Walter | cc |
| 35 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Luis | conj |
| 36 | Alvarez | Alvarez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Walter | flat |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 father | punct |
| 38 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Luis | appos |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 son | cc |
| 40 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 father | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 1980 | punct |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 1980 | case |
| 43 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 found | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 marks | 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 | mark | present | a thin clay layer | the end of the dinosaurs | the world | all property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Theme over world=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | present | iridium | Earth | rare property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | iridium not said here | asteroids and a clue | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | find | participle | a clue not said here | 1980 | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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 ×2. 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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