--- title: Shooting stars are tiny bits of space dust, usually smaller than a g… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics description: Shooting stars are tiny bits of space dust, usually smaller than a grain of sand, burning up high in the air; many tonnes of dust fall on Earth every day. Who acts: Shooting stars, tiny bits, many tonnes. A sentence of the lesson «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» of the bio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs di…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/) / 15 # The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 15 Shooting stars are tiny bits of space dust, usually smaller than a grain of sand, burning up high in the air; many tonnes of dust fall on Earth every day. **Who acts:** Shooting stars, tiny bits, many tonnes · **What happens:** shoot, be, burn up, fall · **To what, where:** tiny bits, air, Earth 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 (Shooting stars, tiny bits, many tonnes), 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:15 # text = Shooting stars are tiny bits of space dust, usually smaller than a grain of sand, burning up high in the air; many tonnes of dust fall on Earth every day. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Shooting shoot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ _ 2 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 usually usually ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 acl _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 tonnes tonne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shoot** | gerund | | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Shooting stars | tiny bits | | | | of space dust | tree rules | | 3 | **burn up** | gerund | tiny bits *not said here* | | | the air | | high *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | | 4 | **fall** | present | many tonnes of dust | | | Earth | day | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location | 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:15`. **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): 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. 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