Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 19

Some scientists hope to make cold-proof elephants with some mammoth features, but it has not been done, and many people question whether it should be.

Who acts: scientists, many people, elephant · What happens: hope, make, not do, question, be · To what, where: proof elephants, elephant · 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 (scientists, many people, elephant), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 scientists	det
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hope	nsubj
3	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hope	xcomp
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 proof	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 cold	punct
8	proof	proof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 elephants	amod
9	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 features	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 features	det
12	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 features	compound
13	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 elephants	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 done	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 done	nsubj:pass
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 done	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 done	aux:pass
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hope	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 question	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 question	cc
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 question	nsubj
25	question	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hope	conj
26	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	29 be	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 be	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 be	aux
29	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 question	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hope	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hope	present	some scientists			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	some scientists not said here	proof elephants	with some mammoth features	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elephant=Product
3	not do	present · perfect · passive		elephant		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	question speech: other	present	many people			tree rules
5	be	should	elephant			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:19.

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, 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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