Asteroids and the asteroid belt, sentence 4

66 million years ago a 10-kilometre asteroid hit what is now Mexico and helped wipe out the dinosaurs, except the birds, whose relatives still sing outside your window.

Who acts: kilometre asteroid, relatives · What happens: hit, be, help, wipe out, sing · To what, where: Mexico, dinosaurs, window

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 (kilometre asteroid, relatives), 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	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 million	compound
2	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ago	obl:unmarked
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 hit	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 asteroid	det
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 kilometre	nummod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 10	punct
8	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asteroid	compound
9	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hit	nsubj
10	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 Mexico	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Mexico	cop
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 Mexico	advmod
14	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hit	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 helped	cc
16	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hit	conj
17	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 helped	xcomp
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 wipe	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dinosaurs	det
20	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wipe	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 birds	punct
22	except	except	ADP	_	24 birds	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 birds	det
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dinosaurs	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 relatives	punct
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	27 relatives	nmod:poss
27	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sing	nsubj
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 sing	advmod
29	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 birds	acl:relcl
30	outside	outside	ADP	_	32 window	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 window	nmod:poss
32	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hit	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a kilometre asteroid				ago property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		Mexico		now		tree rules
3	help	past	a kilometre asteroid not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	wipe out	infinitive	a kilometre asteroid not said here	the dinosaurs			except the birds	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Source
5	sing speech: express	present	relatives		your window	still		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside window=Location

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: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 ×2. 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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