The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs, sentence 4

About 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly 10 kilometres wide hit what is now the Yucatan coast of Mexico, making the Chicxulub crater about 180 kilometres across.

Who acts: asteroid · What happens: hit, be, make · To what, where: Yucatan coast, Chicxulub crater

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 (asteroid), 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	About	about	ADV	_	3 million	advmod
2	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ago	obl:unmarked
5	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 hit	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 asteroid	det
7	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hit	nsubj
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	11 wide	advmod
9	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 kilometres	nummod
10	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wide	obl:unmarked
11	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 asteroid	amod
12	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 coast	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 coast	cop
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 coast	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 coast	det
17	Yucatan	Yucatan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 coast	compound
18	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hit	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Mexico	case
20	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 coast	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 making	punct
22	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hit	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 crater	det
24	Chicxulub	Chicxulub	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 crater	compound
25	crater	crater	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 making	obj
26	about	about	ADV	_	27 180	advmod
27	180	180	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 kilometres	nummod
28	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 across	obl
29	across	across	ADV	_	22 making	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 hit	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a asteroid			ago property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the Yucatan coast	now	of Mexico	tree rules
3	make	gerund	a asteroid not said here	the Chicxulub crater		across property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crater=Product

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:4.

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 ×4. 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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