--- title: About 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly 10 kilometres wide hi… — The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living di… · tree and pragmatics description: About 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly 10 kilometres wide hit what is now the Yucatan coast of Mexico, making the Chicxulub crater about 180 kilometres across. Who acts: asteroid. 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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 (asteroid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.lesson:4 # text = About 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly 10 kilometres wide hit what is now the Yucatan coast of Mexico, making the Chicxulub crater about 180 kilometres across. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.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 ×4 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked 5 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 asteroid asteroid NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 12 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Yucatan Yucatan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Chicxulub Chicxulub PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 crater crater NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 27 180 180 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 29 across across ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | | | | | ago *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the Yucatan coast | | | now | of Mexico | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | gerund | a asteroid *not said here* | the Chicxulub crater | | | | across *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crater=Product | 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:076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.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): R5-strong ×4. **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 end of the dinosaurs, and birds as…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/3/) - next →: [The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/)