The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs, sentence 7

At the same time the Deccan Traps volcanoes poured lava across India for hundreds of thousands of years, and many scientists think their gases made things harder before and after the asteroid.

Who acts: Traps volcanoes, many scientists, gases · What happens: pour, think, make · To what, where: lava, India, things · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Traps volcanoes, many scientists, gases), 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	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poured	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 volcanoes	det
6	Deccan	Deccan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Traps	compound
7	Traps	trap	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 volcanoes	compound
8	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poured	nsubj
9	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poured	obj
11	across	across	ADP	_	12 India	case
12	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 poured	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 hundreds	case
14	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poured	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 thousands	case
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hundreds	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 years	case
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thousands	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 think	cc
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 scientists	amod
22	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 think	nsubj
23	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 poured	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 gases	nmod:poss
25	gases	gas	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 think	ccomp
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 made	obj
28	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 made	xcomp
29	before	before	ADV	_	26 made	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 asteroid	cc
31	after	after	ADP	_	29 before	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 asteroid	det
33	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 before	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 poured	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	past	the Traps volcanoes	lava	India	time	for hundreds of thousands of years	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lava=Patient for hundred=Beneficiary
2	think speech: other	present	many scientists					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	make	past	scientists's gases	things			before, hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=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:7.

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 ×3, R8-pos-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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