Deep time and the story of life, sentence 17
About 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 km wide hit Mexico and ended the age of non-bird dinosaurs.
Who acts: asteroid · What happens: hit, end · To what, where: Mexico, age
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 (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 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 10 | advmod |
| 9 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 km | nummod |
| 10 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wide | obl |
| 11 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 asteroid | amod |
| 12 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ended | cc |
| 15 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hit | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 age | det |
| 17 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ended | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dinosaurs | case |
| 19 | non-bird | non-bird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dinosaurs | amod |
| 20 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 age | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hit | 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 | hit | past | a asteroid | Mexico | ago property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mexico=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | end | past | a asteroid not said here | the age of non-bird dinosaurs | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality age=Eventuality |
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:17.
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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