Deep time and the story of life, sentence 16
The biggest mass extinction, about 252 million years ago, wiped out about 90% of sea species.
Who acts: biggest mass extinction · What happens: wipe out
This is a sentence of the lesson «Deep time and the story of life» of the geography 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 (biggest mass extinction), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 extinction | det |
| 2 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 extinction | amod |
| 3 | mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 extinction | amod |
| 4 | extinction | extinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wiped | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wiped | punct |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 million | advmod |
| 7 | 252 | 252 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 million | compound |
| 8 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 wiped | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wiped | punct |
| 12 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 wiped | compound:prt |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 90 | advmod |
| 15 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 % | nummod |
| 16 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 12 wiped | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 species | case |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 species | compound |
| 19 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 % | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wiped | 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 | wipe out | past | the biggest mass extinction | ago property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent %=Source |
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:geography:058-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life.lesson:16.
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): 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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