--- title: With the big dinosaurs gone, mammals spread and grew to every size,… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics description: With the big dinosaurs gone, mammals spread and grew to every size, and our own ancestors were among them, so in a way we owe our lives to that rock from space. Who acts: big dinosaurs, mammals, own ancestors. 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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 (big dinosaurs, mammals, own ancestors), 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:4 # text = With the big dinosaurs gone, mammals spread and grew to every size, and our own ancestors were among them, so in a way we owe our lives to that rock from space. # 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): R6-punct-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|Number=Plur|Person=3|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 _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 19 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 among among ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 27 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 owe owe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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* | | | | | to every size | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **be** | past | mammals *not said here* | | | | | among mammals *= mammal* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location | | 5 | **owe** | present | our own ancestors | our lives | | a way | | to that rock from space *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent life=Theme to rock=Goal | 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:4`. **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): R6-punct-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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