--- title: There have been five great mass extinctions; the end of the dinosaur… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics description: There have been five great mass extinctions; the end of the dinosaurs was the most recent, and the biggest, 252 million years ago, killed about nine in ten sea species. Who acts: five great mass extinctions, end. 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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 (five great mass extinctions, end), 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:16 # text = There have been five great mass extinctions; the end of the dinosaurs was the most recent, and the biggest, 252 million years ago, killed about nine in ten sea species. # 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 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:expl 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:aux 3 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 mass mass ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 extinctions extinction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 17 advmod _ _ 17 recent recent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 252 252 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nummod 24 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl:unmarked 26 ago ago ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 33 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 species species NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present · perfect | five great mass extinctions | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the end of the dinosaurs | | | | | recent *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **kill** | past | | nine | | ten sea species | | ago *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nine=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:16`. **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. **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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