Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 14
Woolly rhinos had two horns, a long one at the front and a shorter one behind, and shaggy fur; they were painted in the Chauvet cave in France more than 30,000 years ago.
Who acts: Woolly rhinos · What happens: have, paint · To what, where: two horns, rhinos, Chauvet cave
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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 rhinos), 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 rhinos | amod |
| 2 | rhinos | rhino | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 horns | nummod |
| 5 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 front | det |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 one | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 front | conj |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fur | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fur | cc |
| 20 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fur | amod |
| 21 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horns | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 painted | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 painted | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 painted | aux:pass |
| 25 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 cave | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cave | det |
| 28 | Chauvet | Chauvet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 cave | compound |
| 29 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 painted | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 France | case |
| 31 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 cave | nmod |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 30,000 | advmod |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 more | fixed |
| 34 | 30,000 | 30,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 years | nummod |
| 35 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 25 painted | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Woolly rhinos | two horns and shaggy fur | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 2 | paint | past · passive | rhinos = rhino | the Chauvet cave in France | ago property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cave=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:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:14.
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, 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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