Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 6

Woolly mammoths had small ears and short tails, much smaller than an African elephant's, which kept heat in and were less likely to freeze.

Who acts: Woolly mammoths, small ears · What happens: have, keep, be, freeze · To what, where: small ears, heat

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 (Woolly mammoths, small ears), 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	Woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mammoths	amod
2	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ears	amod
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tails	cc
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tails	amod
8	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ears	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smaller	punct
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 smaller	advmod
11	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	parataxis
12	than	than	ADP	_	15 elephant	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 elephant	det
14	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 elephant	amod
15	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smaller	obl
16	's	's	PART	_	15 elephant	case
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 kept	nsubj
19	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ears	acl:relcl
20	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kept	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	19 kept	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 likely	cc
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 likely	cop
24	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 likely	advmod
25	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 kept	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 freeze	mark
27	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 likely	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Woolly mammoths	small ears and short tails		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
2	keep	past	small ears and short tails	heat		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
3	is	past	small ears and short tails not said here		less, likely property	tree rules
4	freeze	to-infinitive	small ears and short tails not said here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:6.

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. 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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