The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 8

At Tanis in North Dakota, scientists report fish that died with tiny glass beads from the impact in their gills, which may record the very day; this find is still being studied.

Who acts: scientists, fish, gills · What happens: report, die, record, study · To what, where: fish, Tanis, impact, find

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 (scientists, fish, gills), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 Tanis	case
2	Tanis	Tanis	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 report	obl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Dakota	case
4	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Dakota	compound
5	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tanis	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 report	punct
7	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 report	nsubj
8	report	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 report	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 died	nsubj
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fish	acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 beads	case
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beads	amod
14	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beads	compound
15	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 died	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 impact	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 impact	det
18	impact	impact	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 died	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 gills	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 gills	nmod:poss
21	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 impact	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 record	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 record	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 record	aux
25	record	record	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 gills	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 day	det
27	very	very	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 day	amod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 record	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 studied	punct
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 find	det
31	find	find	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 studied	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 studied	aux
33	still	still	ADV	_	35 studied	advmod
34	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 studied	aux:pass
35	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 report	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 report	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	present	scientists	fish	Tanis in North Dakota			vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	die	past	fish		the impact in scientists's gills		with tiny glass beads	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from impact=Causer
3	record	may	scientists's gills			day		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	study	present · progressive · passive		this find		still		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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:8.

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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