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title: About three quarters of all kinds of life died out; frogs, turtles,… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics
description: About three quarters of all kinds of life died out; frogs, turtles, crocodiles, small mammals and some birds survived. Who acts: three quarters, frogs. A sentence of the lesson «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 11

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About three quarters of all kinds of life died out; frogs, turtles, crocodiles, small mammals and some birds survived.

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**Who acts:** three quarters, frogs · **What happens:** die out, survive

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» of the biology 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 (three quarters, frogs), 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:11
# text = About three quarters of all kinds of life died out; frogs, turtles, crocodiles, small mammals and some birds survived.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die out** | past | three quarters of all kinds of life |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **survive** | past | frogs and turtles |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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