--- title: An impact about 66 million years ago helped end the age of the non-b… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics description: An impact about 66 million years ago helped end the age of the non-bird dinosaurs. Who acts: impact. A sentence of the lesson «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» of the space 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/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/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/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/) / 17 # Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, sentence 17 An impact about 66 million years ago helped end the age of the non-bird dinosaurs. **Who acts:** impact · **What happens:** help, end · **To what, where:** age This is a sentence of the lesson «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» of the space 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 (impact), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.lesson:17 # text = An impact about 66 million years ago helped end the age of the non-bird dinosaurs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.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 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 impact impact NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 4 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 compound _ _ 5 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 7 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 8 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 non-bird non-bird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 . . 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 | **help** | past | a impact | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **end** | infinitive | a impact *not said here* | the age of the 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:space:016-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars.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 ×3. **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: [Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/16/) - next →: [Stars: what they are, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/)