--- title: About 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 km wide hit Mexico a… — Deep time and the story of life · tree and pragmatics description: About 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 km wide hit Mexico and ended the age of non-bird dinosaurs. Who acts: asteroid. A sentence of the lesson «Deep time and the story of life» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Deep time and the story of life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/) / 17 # Deep time and the story of life, sentence 17 About 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 km wide hit Mexico and ended the age of non-bird dinosaurs. **Who acts:** asteroid · **What happens:** hit, end · **To what, where:** Mexico, age This is a sentence of the lesson «Deep time and the story of life» of the geography 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 (asteroid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:058-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life.lesson:17 # text = About 66 million years ago an asteroid about 10 km wide hit Mexico and ended the age of non-bird dinosaurs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 058-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life.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 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 12 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 non-bird non-bird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 . . 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 | Mexico | | | | ago *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mexico=Co-Theme | | 2 | **end** | past | a asteroid *not said here* | the age of non-bird dinosaurs | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality age=Eventuality | 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:geography:058-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life.lesson:17`. **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: [Deep time and the story of life, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/16/) - next →: [Deep time and the story of life, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/)