--- title: An asteroid about 10 kilometres wide hit Chicxulub in Mexico 66 mill… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics description: An asteroid about 10 kilometres wide hit Chicxulub in Mexico 66 million years ago at about 20 kilometres a second; the crater, about 180 kilometres wide, is now buried under land and sea. Who acts: asteroid. A sentence of the lesson «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» of the --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 5 An asteroid about 10 kilometres wide hit Chicxulub in Mexico 66 million years ago at about 20 kilometres a second; the crater, about 180 kilometres wide, is now buried under land and sea. **Who acts:** asteroid · **What happens:** hit, bury · **To what, where:** Chicxulub, Mexico, crater, land 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 (asteroid), 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:5 # text = An asteroid about 10 kilometres wide hit Chicxulub in Mexico 66 million years ago at about 20 kilometres a second; the crater, about 180 kilometres wide, is now buried under land and sea. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×7, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 asteroid asteroid NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 4 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 6 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod 7 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 Chicxulub Chicxulub PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 compound _ _ 12 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 14 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 crater crater NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 180 180 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod:unmarked 28 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:amod 29 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 31 now now ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 33 under under ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **hit** | past | a asteroid | Chicxulub | | Mexico | | at 20 kilometres a second; ago *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent chicxulub=Theme in mexico=Destination | | 2 | **bury** | present · passive | | the crater | | land and sea | now | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under land=Destination | 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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×7, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs di…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/4/) - next →: [The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs di…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/)