Asteroids and the asteroid belt, sentence 15
About 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 kilometres wide hit what is now Mexico and helped wipe out the dinosaurs, except birds.
Who acts: asteroid · What happens: hit, be, help, wipe out · To what, where: Mexico, dinosaurs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» of the space 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 | 7 asteroid | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 years | 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 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 Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 Mexico | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Mexico | cop |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | _ | 16 Mexico | advmod |
| 16 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 helped | cc |
| 18 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hit | conj |
| 19 | wipe | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 helped | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 wipe | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dinosaurs | det |
| 22 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wipe | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 birds | punct |
| 24 | except | except | ADP | _ | 25 birds | case |
| 25 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dinosaurs | conj |
| 26 | . | . | 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 | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Mexico | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | past | a asteroid not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wipe out | infinitive | a asteroid not said here | the dinosaurs and birds | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent dinosaur=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:space:009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.lesson:15.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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