Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 11

Most woolly mammoths died out about 10,000 years ago, but a small group lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 4,000 years ago, when the Egyptian pyramids were already standing.

Who acts: Most woolly mammoths, small group, Egyptian pyramids · What happens: die out, live, stand · To what, where: Wrangel Island

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 (Most woolly mammoths, small group, Egyptian pyramids), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 mammoths	amod
2	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mammoths	amod
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 died	compound:prt
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 10,000	advmod
7	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ago	obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 died	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lived	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 lived	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 group	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 group	amod
14	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	nsubj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 Island	case
17	Wrangel	Wrangel	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Island	compound
18	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 Ocean	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Ocean	det
21	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Ocean	compound
22	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
23	until	until	ADP	_	26 years	case
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 4,000	advmod
25	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 years	nummod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lived	obl:unmarked
27	ago	ago	ADV	_	26 years	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 standing	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 standing	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pyramids	det
31	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pyramids	amod
32	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 standing	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 standing	aux
34	already	already	ADV	_	35 standing	advmod
35	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 died	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	past	Most woolly mammoths			ago property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	live	past	a small group	Wrangel Island	year	in the Arctic Ocean	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location
3	stand	past · progressive	the Egyptian pyramids				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:11.

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.

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