Dinosaurs and life long ago, sentence 1

Dinosaurs were reptiles that lived for about 165 million years and died out about 66 million years ago, very likely after a huge rock from space hit the Earth and changed the climate.

Who acts: Dinosaurs, reptiles, huge rock · What happens: be, live, die out, hit, change · To what, where: reptiles, Earth, climate

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs and life long ago» of the world 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 (Dinosaurs, reptiles, huge rock), 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	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reptiles	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reptiles	cop
3	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reptiles	acl:relcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	9 million	advmod
8	165	165	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 million	compound
9	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 died	cc
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 died	compound:prt
14	about	about	ADV	_	16 million	advmod
15	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 million	compound
16	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ago	obl:unmarked
18	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 died	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rock	punct
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 likely	advmod
21	likely	likely	ADV	_	25 rock	advmod
22	after	after	ADP	_	25 rock	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 rock	det
24	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rock	amod
25	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 space	case
27	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rock	nmod
28	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rock	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Earth	det
30	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 hit	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 changed	cc
32	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hit	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 climate	det
34	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 changed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reptiles	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dinosaurs	reptiles			tree rules
2	live	past	reptiles		year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die out	past	reptiles not said here		after a huge rock from space	ago property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	hit	past	a huge rock from space not said here	the Earth			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme
5	change	past	a huge rock from space not said here	the climate			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Patient

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:world:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:1.

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 ×1, 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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