The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs, sentence 15

After the dinosaurs died out, mammals spread into many new kinds, and within about 10 million years there were early bats, early whales and dog-sized early horses.

Who acts: dinosaurs, mammals · What happens: die out, spread, be, size · To what, where: many new kinds, early bats

This is a sentence of the lesson «The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs» 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 (dinosaurs, mammals), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 died	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dinosaurs	det
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spread	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 died	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mammals	punct
7	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	nsubj
8	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 kinds	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kinds	amod
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kinds	amod
12	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bats	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bats	cc
15	within	within	ADP	_	19 years	case
16	about	about	ADV	_	18 million	advmod
17	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 million	compound
18	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 were	obl
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 were	expl
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bats	cop
22	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bats	amod
23	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 whales	punct
25	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 whales	amod
26	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bats	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 horses	cc
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sized	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 dog	punct
30	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 horses	amod
31	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 horses	amod
32	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bats	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	die out	past	the dinosaurs			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	spread	past	mammals		many new kinds	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into kind=Destination
3	is a	past	mammals not said here	early bats and early whales and sized early horses		tree rules
4	size	participle				tree rules

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:076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.lesson:15.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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