Dinosaurs and life long ago, sentence 6

A huge rock from space hit the Earth about 66 million years ago; its dust and smoke blocked the sunlight all over the world and changed the climate.

Who acts: huge rock, dust · What happens: hit, block, change · To what, where: Earth, sunlight, world, 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 (huge rock, dust), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rock	amod
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hit	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 space	case
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rock	nmod
6	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hit	obj
9	about	about	ADV	_	11 million	advmod
10	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 million	compound
11	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ago	obl:unmarked
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 hit	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 blocked	punct
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dust	nmod:poss
16	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blocked	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 smoke	cc
18	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dust	conj
19	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sunlight	det
21	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blocked	obj
22	all	all	ADV	_	25 world	advmod
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blocked	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 changed	cc
27	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 blocked	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 climate	det
29	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 changed	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a huge rock from space	the Earth		ago property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme
2	block	past	rock's dust and smoke	the sunlight	the world		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient over world=Location
3	change	past	rock's dust and smoke 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:6.

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, R7-rel-agree ×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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