Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 8
Mammoth tusks have rings inside like tree rings, which scientists read to learn how the animal lived year by year.
Who acts: Mammoth tusks, scientists, animal · What happens: have, read, learn, live · To what, where: rings, tree rings
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 (Mammoth tusks, scientists, animal), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tusks | amod |
| 2 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 rings | case |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rings | compound |
| 8 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rings | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 read | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 read | obj |
| 11 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 read | nsubj |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rings | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 learn | mark |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 read | advcl |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 lived | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 animal | det |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 learn | advcl |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 year | case |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 year | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Mammoth tusks | rings | like tree rings; inside property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | |||
| 2 | read | past | scientists | tree rings | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | scientists not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live | past | the animal | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:8.
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. 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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