--- title: At the same time the Deccan Traps volcanoes poured lava across India… — The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living di… · tree and pragmatics description: At the same time the Deccan Traps volcanoes poured lava across India for hundreds of thousands of years, and many scientists think their gases made things harder before and after the asteroid. Who acts: Traps volcanoes, many scientists, gases. 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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 (Traps volcanoes, many scientists, gases), 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:7 # text = At the same time the Deccan Traps volcanoes poured lava across India for hundreds of thousands of years, and many scientists think their gases made things harder before and after the asteroid. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 Deccan Deccan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 7 Traps trap PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 volcanoes volcano NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 poured pour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 lava lava NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 across across ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 gases gas NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:xcomp 29 before before ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 after after ADP IN _ 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:case 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 asteroid asteroid NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pour** | past | the Traps volcanoes | lava | | India | time | for hundreds of thousands of years | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lava=Patient for hundred=Beneficiary | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | many scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **make** | past | scientists's gases | things | | | | before, hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=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:7`. **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 ×3, 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 end of the dinosaurs, and birds as…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/6/) - next →: [The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/)