Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 4
The film gets the ending wrong: most mammoths died out about 10,000 years ago as the climate warmed and people hunted them, though a last small group lived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago.
Who acts: film, most mammoths, climate, people, last small group · What happens: get, die out, warm, hunt, live · To what, where: ending, walls, Wrangel Island
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 (film, most mammoths, climate, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 film | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ending | det |
| 5 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | obj |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gets | xcomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 died | punct |
| 8 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 mammoths | amod |
| 9 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | parataxis |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 died | compound:prt |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 10,000 | advmod |
| 13 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 died | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 warmed | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 climate | det |
| 18 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 warmed | nsubj |
| 19 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 died | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hunted | cc |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hunted | nsubj |
| 22 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 warmed | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hunted | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 group | punct |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 30 lived | mark |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 group | det |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 group | amod |
| 28 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 group | amod |
| 29 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lived | nsubj |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hunted | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 Island | case |
| 32 | Wrangel | Wrangel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Island | compound |
| 33 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 lived | obl |
| 34 | until | until | ADP | _ | 37 years | case |
| 35 | about | about | ADV | _ | 36 4,000 | advmod |
| 36 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 years | nummod |
| 37 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 30 lived | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the film | the ending | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ending=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | die out | past | most mammoths | ago property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | warm | past | the climate | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | hunt | past | people | walls = wall | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | live | past | a last small group | Wrangel Island | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
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:4.
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): R8-pos-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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