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title: Without sunlight plants could not make food, so plant-eaters starved… — The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who… · tree and pragmatics
description: Without sunlight plants could not make food, so plant-eaters starved, and then meat-eaters: the food chain collapsed from the bottom. Who acts: plants, plant eaters, food chain. A sentence of the lesson «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» of the biology course of Mova's prima
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# The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 9

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Without sunlight plants could not make food, so plant-eaters starved, and then meat-eaters: the food chain collapsed from the bottom.

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**Who acts:** plants, plant eaters, food chain · **What happens:** not make, starve, collapse · **To what, where:** food, bottom

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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 (plants, plant eaters, food chain), 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:9
# text = Without sunlight plants could not make food, so plant-eaters starved, and then meat-eaters: the food chain collapsed from the bottom.
# 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 ×2
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	eaters	eater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	starved	starve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	eaters	eater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	collapsed	collapse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | could | plants | food |  |  |  | without sunlight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |
| 2 | **starve** | past | plant eaters and meat eaters |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **collapse** | past | the food chain |  |  | the bottom |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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 ×2. **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/).

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