--- title: Small animals that could burrow, hide in water, or eat seeds and dea… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics description: Small animals that could burrow, hide in water, or eat seeds and dead things, such as frogs, turtles, crocodiles, small mammals and some birds, came through it. Who acts: Small animals. 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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 (Small animals), 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:3 # text = Small animals that could burrow, hide in water, or eat seeds and dead things, such as frogs, turtles, crocodiles, small mammals and some birds, came through it. # 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 ×1 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 burrow burrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 20 case _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 crocodiles crocodile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 32 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burrow** | could | Small animals | | | | | | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hide** | infinitive | Small animals *not said here* | | | water | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | | 3 | **eat** | infinitive | Small animals *not said here* | seeds and dead things and crocodiles and small mammals and some birds | | | | such frogs and turtles | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient | | 4 | **come** | past | Small animals | | | water | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through it=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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