--- title: About 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 kilometres wide, as… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics description: About 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 kilometres wide, as wide as a big city, hit what is now Mexico at about 20 kilometres a second and left the Chicxulub crater, about 180 kilometres across. Who acts: asteroid. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died.lesson:0 # text = About 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 kilometres wide, as wide as a big city, hit what is now Mexico at about 20 kilometres a second and left the Chicxulub crater, about 180 kilometres across. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died.lesson # annotation = 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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked 5 ago ago ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 asteroid asteroid NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 wide wide ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 now now ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:unmarked _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Chicxulub Chicxulub PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 crater crater NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 180 180 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl:unmarked 40 across across ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod 41 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 as a big city | | | | | at 20 kilometres a second; ago *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at kilometre=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | | Mexico | | | now | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | past | a asteroid as a big city *not said here* | the Chicxulub crater | | | | across *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crater=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died.lesson:0`. **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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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