The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 9
Without sunlight plants could not make food, so plant-eaters starved, and then meat-eaters: the food chain collapsed from the bottom.
Who acts: plants, plant eaters, food chain · What happens: not make, starve, collapse · To what, where: food, bottom
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 (plants, plant eaters, food chain), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 2 sunlight | case |
| 2 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 3 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 make | advmod |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 starved | advcl |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 starved | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 starved | advmod |
| 10 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eaters | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 eaters | punct |
| 12 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 starved | nsubj |
| 13 | starved | starve | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eaters | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eaters | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 eaters | advmod |
| 17 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eaters | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 meat | punct |
| 19 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eaters | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 starved | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chain | det |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chain | compound |
| 23 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 collapsed | nsubj |
| 24 | collapsed | collapse | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 starved | parataxis |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 bottom | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bottom | det |
| 27 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 collapsed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | 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 | not make | could | plants | food | without sunlight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product | |||
| 2 | starve | past | plant eaters and meat eaters | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | collapse | past | the food chain | the bottom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:9.
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 ×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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