--- title: The blast was billions of times stronger than the biggest bomb ever… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics description: The blast was billions of times stronger than the biggest bomb ever made; it started fires, made giant waves and darkened the sky for months or years. Who acts: blast. 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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 (blast), 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:6 # text = The blast was billions of times stronger than the biggest bomb ever made; it started fires, made giant waves and darkened the sky for months or years. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 blast blast NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 billions billion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 bomb bomb NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 13 advmod _ _ 13 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 17 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 darkened darken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **is** | past | the blast | | | | | than the biggest bomb; billions of times *obl*; strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | the biggest bomb *not said here* | | | ever | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **start** | past | blast | fires | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality | | 4 | **make** | past | blast *not said here* | giant waves | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wave=Product | | 5 | **darken** | past | blast *not said here* | the sky | | | month | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sky=Patient | 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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