Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 12

Mammoths were close relatives of today's elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, as scientists found by comparing DNA.

Who acts: Mammoths, scientists · What happens: be, find, compare · To what, where: close relatives, DNA

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 (Mammoths, scientists), 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	Mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 relatives	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 relatives	cop
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 relatives	amod
4	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 elephants	case
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 elephants	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 today	case
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 relatives	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 closest	punct
10	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 relatives	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 closest	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 elephant	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 elephant	det
15	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 elephant	amod
16	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 closest	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 scientists	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 found	mark
19	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 relatives	advcl
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 comparing	mark
22	comparing	compare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 found	advcl
23	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comparing	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 relatives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mammoths	close relatives	of today's elephants	tree rules
2	find	past	scientists			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	compare	gerund	scientists not said here	DNA		vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dna=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, 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:12.

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. 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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