Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 1

Manny is a fair picture: real woolly mammoths were close relatives of elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, about as tall as an African elephant, with two coats of hair and a fatty hump.

Who acts: Manny, real woolly mammoths · What happens: be · To what, where: fair picture, close relatives

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» of the biology 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 (Manny, real woolly mammoths), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Manny	Manny	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 picture	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 picture	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 picture	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 picture	amod
5	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 relatives	punct
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mammoths	amod
8	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mammoths	amod
9	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 relatives	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 relatives	cop
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 relatives	amod
12	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 picture	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 elephants	case
14	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 relatives	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 closest	punct
16	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 relatives	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 closest	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 elephant	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 elephant	det
21	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 elephant	amod
22	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 closest	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tall	punct
24	about	about	ADV	_	26 tall	advmod
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 tall	advmod
26	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 picture	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 elephant	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 elephant	det
29	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 elephant	amod
30	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tall	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 coats	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 coats	case
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 coats	nummod
34	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tall	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 hair	case
36	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 coats	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 hump	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hump	det
39	fatty	fatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hump	amod
40	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hair	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Manny	a fair picture		tree rules
2	is a	past	real woolly mammoths	close relatives	of elephants	tree rules
3	be		real woolly mammoths not said here		of all; to the Asian elephant	tree rules
4	be		Manny not said here		as a African elephant; with two coats of hair and a fatty hump; about property	tree rules

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, 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:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths.lesson:1.

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 ×1, 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.

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