Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 3
We know all this because frozen ground in Siberia works like a freezer: baby mammoths have been found almost whole, one still with milk in her stomach, and Ice Age people painted mammoths on cave walls.
Who acts: We, frozen ground, Age people · What happens: know, freeze, work, find, paint · To what, where: this, baby mammoths, mammoths, cave walls
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 (We, frozen ground, Age people), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 this | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 works | mark |
| 6 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ground | amod |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 works | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Siberia | case |
| 9 | Siberia | Siberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ground | nmod |
| 10 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | advcl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 freezer | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 freezer | det |
| 13 | freezer | freezer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 works | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 15 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mammoths | compound |
| 16 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 found | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 found | aux:pass |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 works | conj |
| 20 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 21 whole | advmod |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 found | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 mammoths | appos |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 one | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 milk | case |
| 26 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 one | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 stomach | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 29 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 milk | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 painted | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 painted | cc |
| 32 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Age | compound |
| 33 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 people | compound |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 painted | nsubj |
| 35 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | conj |
| 36 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 painted | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 walls | case |
| 38 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 walls | compound |
| 39 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 painted | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | We | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | work | present | frozen ground in Siberia | like a freezer | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | find | present · perfect · passive | baby mammoths | whole property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | paint | past | Age people | mammoths | cave walls | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme on wall=Destination |
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:3.
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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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