--- title: At Tanis in North Dakota, scientists report fish that died with tiny… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics description: At Tanis in North Dakota, scientists report fish that died with tiny glass beads from the impact in their gills, which may record the very day; this find is still being studied. Who acts: scientists, fish, gills. 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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 (scientists, fish, gills), 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:8 # text = At Tanis in North Dakota, scientists report fish that died with tiny glass beads from the impact in their gills, which may record the very day; this find is still being studied. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Tanis Tanis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Dakota Dakota PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 report report VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 beads bead NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 impact impact NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 record record VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 very very ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 28 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 find find NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 studied study VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 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 | **report** | present | scientists | fish | | Tanis in North Dakota | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | | 2 | **die** | past | fish | | | the impact in scientists's gills | | with tiny glass beads | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from impact=Causer | | 3 | **record** | may | scientists's gills | | | | day | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **study** | present · progressive · passive | | this find | | | still | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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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