--- title: A huge rock from space hit the Earth about 66 million years ago; its… — Dinosaurs and life long ago · tree and pragmatics description: A huge rock from space hit the Earth about 66 million years ago; its dust and smoke blocked the sunlight all over the world and changed the climate. Who acts: huge rock, dust. 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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 (huge rock, dust), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:6 # text = A huge rock from space hit the Earth about 66 million years ago; its dust and smoke blocked the sunlight all over the world and changed the climate. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nummod 11 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 13 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 blocked block VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 all all ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | past | a huge rock from space | the Earth | | | | ago *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme | | 2 | **block** | past | rock's dust and smoke | the sunlight | | the world | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient over world=Location | | 3 | **change** | past | rock's dust and smoke *not said here* | the climate | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Patient | 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:world:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:6`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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: [Dinosaurs and life long ago, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/5/) - next →: [Dinosaurs and life long ago, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/)