Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 14

Woolly mammoths were about 3 metres tall at the shoulder, about as tall as an African elephant; the steppe mammoth and the Columbian mammoth could be over 4 metres.

Who acts: Woolly mammoths, steppe mammoth · What happens: be · To what, where: shoulder, 4 metres

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 (Woolly mammoths, steppe mammoth), 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	Woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mammoths	amod
2	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tall	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 3	advmod
5	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 metres	nummod
6	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tall	obl:unmarked
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 shoulder	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shoulder	det
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tall	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tall	punct
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 tall	advmod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 tall	advmod
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	parataxis
15	as	as	ADP	_	18 elephant	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 elephant	det
17	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 elephant	amod
18	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tall	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 tall	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mammoth	det
21	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mammoth	compound
22	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 metres	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 mammoth	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mammoth	det
25	Columbian	Columbian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mammoth	amod
26	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mammoth	conj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 metres	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 metres	cop
29	over	over	ADV	_	30 4	advmod
30	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 metres	nummod
31	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tall	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tall	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Woolly mammoths			the shoulder		3 metres obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules
2	is a	could	the steppe mammoth and the Columbian mammoth	4 metres					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:14.

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): 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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