Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 16
Ice Age people painted and carved mammoths in caves in France and Spain, and Rouffignac cave in France is called «the cave of a hundred mammoths»; the painters drew the hump and sloping back that frozen mammoths found much later really had, so they drew from life.
Who acts: Age people, painters · What happens: paint, carve, call, draw, slope back, find · To what, where: mammoths, caves, Rouffignac cave, hump, frozen mammoths · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Age people, painters), 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 | Ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Age | compound |
| 2 | Age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | compound |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 painted | nsubj |
| 4 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 carved | cc |
| 6 | carved | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 painted | conj |
| 7 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 painted | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 caves | case |
| 9 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 painted | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 France | case |
| 11 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 caves | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Spain | cc |
| 13 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 France | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 called | cc |
| 16 | Rouffignac | Rouffignac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cave | compound |
| 17 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 France | case |
| 19 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cave | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 painted | conj |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 cave | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cave | det |
| 24 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 mammoths | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 mammoths | det |
| 27 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 mammoths | nummod |
| 28 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cave | nmod |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 cave | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 drew | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 painters | det |
| 32 | painters | painter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 drew | nsubj |
| 33 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 painted | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hump | det |
| 35 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 drew | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sloping | cc |
| 37 | sloping | slope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 hump | conj |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 sloping | advmod |
| 39 | that | that | ADV | _ | 40 frozen | advmod |
| 40 | frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 mammoths | amod |
| 41 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 sloping | obj |
| 42 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 mammoths | acl |
| 43 | much | much | ADV | _ | 44 later | advmod |
| 44 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 46 had | advmod |
| 45 | really | really | ADV | _ | 46 had | advmod |
| 46 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 found | advcl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 drew | punct |
| 48 | so | so | ADV | _ | 50 drew | advmod |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 drew | nsubj |
| 50 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 drew | conj |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 52 life | case |
| 52 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 drew | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | Age people | mammoths | caves in France and Spain | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme in cave=Destination | |||
| 2 | carve | past | Age people not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | Rouffignac cave in France | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | draw | past | the painters | the hump | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Theme | ||||
| 5 | slope back | gerund | the painters not said here | frozen mammoths | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mammoth=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | participle | frozen mammoths not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | have | past | late property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | draw | past | painters = painter | from life | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from life=Co-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:16.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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