Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 15
Mammoths had a fatty hump on their backs that stored energy for the hard winters.
Who acts: Mammoths, fatty hump · What happens: have, store · To what, where: fatty hump, backs, energy
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, fatty hump), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hump | det |
| 4 | fatty | fatty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hump | amod |
| 5 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 backs | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 backs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hump | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stored | nsubj |
| 10 | stored | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hump | acl:relcl |
| 11 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stored | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 winters | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 winters | det |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 winters | amod |
| 15 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stored | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mammoths | a fatty hump | metres's backs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient | |||
| 2 | store | past | a fatty hump | energy | winter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |
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:15.
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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