Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 9
Frozen ground called permafrost works like a freezer; a baby mammoth called Lyuba, who died about 42,000 years ago, was found almost whole by a reindeer herder in 2007, with milk still in her stomach.
Who acts: Frozen ground, baby mammoth, reindeer herder · What happens: call, work, die, find · To what, where: permafrost, baby mammoth, 2007 · 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 (Frozen ground, baby mammoth, reindeer herder), 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 | Frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ground | amod |
| 2 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ground | acl |
| 4 | permafrost | permafrost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 5 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 freezer | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 freezer | det |
| 8 | freezer | freezer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mammoth | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mammoth | compound |
| 12 | mammoth | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 mammoth | acl |
| 14 | Lyuba | Lyuba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 died | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 died | nsubj |
| 17 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 mammoth | acl:relcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 42,000 | advmod |
| 19 | 42,000 | 42000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 died | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mammoth | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | aux:pass |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 works | parataxis |
| 25 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 26 whole | advmod |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 found | xcomp |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 herder | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 herder | det |
| 29 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 herder | compound |
| 30 | herder | herder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 2007 | case |
| 32 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 found | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 milk | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 milk | case |
| 35 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 39 stomach | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 stomach | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 39 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 milk | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Frozen ground not said here | permafrost | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | work | present | Frozen ground | like a freezer | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a baby mammoth not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | die | past | a baby mammoth | ago property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | find | past · passive | a reindeer herder | a baby mammoth | 2007 | with milk in mammoth's stomach; whole property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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:9.
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 ×5, 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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