--- title: The blast threw hot rock into the sky that fell back and set off fir… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics description: The blast threw hot rock into the sky that fell back and set off fires, made giant waves, and filled the air with dust and soot that darkened the sky for months or years. Who acts: blast, sky, dust. 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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 (blast, sky, dust), 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:1 # text = The blast threw hot rock into the sky that fell back and set off fires, made giant waves, and filled the air with dust and soot that darkened the sky for months or years. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 blast blast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 18 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 soot soot NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 darkened darken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** | past | the blast | hot rock | | | | into the sky *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer rock=Theme into sky=Result | | 2 | **fall back** | past | the sky | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **set off** | past | the sky *not said here* | fires | | | | | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past | the sky *not said here* | giant waves | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wave=Product | | 5 | **fill** | past | the blast *not said here* | the air | | | | with dust and soot | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with dust=Instrument | | 6 | **darken** | past | dust and soot | the sky | | | month | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sky=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](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. 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