--- title: Without sunlight the plants could not make food, so they died, then… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics description: Without sunlight the plants could not make food, so they died, then the plant-eaters starved, then the meat-eaters: the food chain fell down from the bottom like a tower of blocks. Who acts: plants, plant eaters, food chain. 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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 (plants, plant eaters, food chain), 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:2 # text = Without sunlight the plants could not make food, so they died, then the plant-eaters starved, then the meat-eaters: the food chain fell down from the bottom like a tower of blocks. # 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): no change 1 Without without ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 starved starve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 parataxis _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 31 down down ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **make** | could | the plants | food | | | | without sunlight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product | | 2 | **die** | past | plants *= plant* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **starve** | participle | the plant eaters | | | | then | | tree rules | | 4 | **fall down** | past | the food chain | | | the bottom like a tower of blocks | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bottom=Initial\_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. 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