The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs, sentence 3

In cartoons the dinosaurs all die at once in one fiery bang and small furry mammals were never there; in reality the dark years did the killing, volcanoes in India were erupting too, and mammals waited in their burrows for their turn.

Who acts: dinosaurs, small furry mammals, dark years, volcanoes, mammals · What happens: die, not be, do, erupt, wait · To what, where: killing, burrows

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, small furry mammals, dark years, volcanoes), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 cartoons	case
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 die	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dinosaurs	det
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 die	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dinosaurs	det:predet
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 erupting	parataxis
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 die	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 bang	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 bang	nummod
11	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bang	amod
12	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 die	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 there	cc
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mammals	amod
15	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mammals	amod
16	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 there	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 there	cop
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 there	advmod
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 once	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 reality	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 reality	case
22	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cartoons	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 years	det
24	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 years	amod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 did	nsubj
26	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 reality	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 killing	det
28	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 did	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 erupting	punct
30	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 erupting	nsubj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 India	case
32	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 volcanoes	nmod
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 erupting	aux
34	erupting	erupt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
35	too	too	ADV	_	34 erupting	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 waited	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 waited	cc
38	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 waited	nsubj
39	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 erupting	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 burrows	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 burrows	nmod:poss
42	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 waited	obl
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 turn	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 turn	nmod:poss
45	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 waited	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 erupting	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	present	the dinosaurs			in one fiery bang; in cartoons and reality	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cartoon=Attribute
2	not is	past	small furry mammals			there property	tree rules
3	do	past	the dark years	the killing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent killing=Eventuality
4	erupt	past · progressive	volcanoes in India				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wait	past	mammals		dinosaurs's burrows	for dinosaurs's turn	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burrow=Location

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:3.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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