--- title: 66 million years ago a 10-kilometre asteroid hit what is now Mexico… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics description: 66 million years ago a 10-kilometre asteroid hit what is now Mexico and helped wipe out the dinosaurs, except the birds, whose relatives still sing outside your window. Who acts: kilometre asteroid, relatives. 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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 (kilometre asteroid, relatives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.lesson:4 # text = 66 million years ago a 10-kilometre asteroid hit what is now Mexico and helped wipe out the dinosaurs, except the birds, whose relatives still sing outside your window. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.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 ×2 1 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 asteroid asteroid NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 wipe wipe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 except except ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 outside outside ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 kilometre asteroid | | | | | ago *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | Mexico | | | now | | tree rules | | 3 | **help** | past | a kilometre asteroid *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **wipe out** | infinitive | a kilometre asteroid *not said here* | the dinosaurs | | | | except the birds | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Source | | 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | relatives | | | your window | still | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside window=Location | 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:009-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt.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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Asteroids and the asteroid belt, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/3/) - next →: [Asteroids and the asteroid belt, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/)