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title: With the big dinosaurs gone, mammals spread and grew big, and within… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics
description: With the big dinosaurs gone, mammals spread and grew big, and within a few million years there were mammals of every size, our ancestors among them. Who acts: big dinosaurs, mammals. A sentence of the lesson «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» of the biology course of Mova's 
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# The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 12

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With the big dinosaurs gone, mammals spread and grew big, and within a few million years there were mammals of every size, our ancestors among them.

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**Who acts:** big dinosaurs, mammals · **What happens:** go, spread, grow, be

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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 (big dinosaurs, mammals), 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:12
# text = With the big dinosaurs gone, mammals spread and grew big, and within a few million years there were mammals of every size, our ancestors among them.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
21	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
28	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **go** | participle | the big dinosaurs |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spread** | past | mammals |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | mammals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | mammals of every size |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «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:12`.

**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 ×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.

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

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