Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 17

Mammoth bones and teeth are dug up in many countries, including Britain, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, because mammoths roamed widely across the northern half of the world.

Who acts: mammoths · What happens: dig up, roam · To what, where: Mammoth bones, many countries, northern half

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), 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	Mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bones	compound
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dug	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 teeth	cc
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bones	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dug	aux:pass
6	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 dug	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 countries	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 countries	amod
10	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dug	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Britain	punct
12	including	include	ADP	_	13 Britain	case
13	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 countries	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Germany	punct
15	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Britain	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Ukraine	punct
17	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Britain	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 States	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 States	det
20	United	United	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 States	flat
21	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 Britain	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mammoths	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 roamed	mark
24	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 roamed	nsubj
25	roamed	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dug	advcl
26	widely	widely	ADV	_	25 roamed	advmod
27	across	across	ADP	_	30 half	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 half	det
29	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 half	amod
30	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 roamed	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 half	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dug	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	present · passive		Mammoth bones and teeth		many countries include Britain and Germany and Ukraine and the United States			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in country=Location
2	roam	past	mammoths			the northern half of the world		widely property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across half=Trajectory

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:17.

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): no change. 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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