Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 15

In the Ice Age so much water was frozen into ice sheets that the sea was much lower, and people could walk from Asia to America over land that is now under the sea.

Who acts: sea, people, land · What happens: freeze, be, walk · To what, where: much water, Ice Age, America, Asia, sea

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 (sea, people, land), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 Age	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Age	det
3	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Age	compound
4	Age	age	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 frozen	obl
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frozen	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 frozen	aux:pass
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 sheets	case
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sheets	compound
12	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 frozen	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 lower	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lower	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lower	cop
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 lower	advmod
18	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 frozen	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 walk	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 walk	cc
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 walk	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 walk	aux
23	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 frozen	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 Asia	case
25	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 walk	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 America	case
27	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 walk	obl
28	over	over	ADP	_	29 land	case
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walk	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 sea	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sea	cop
32	now	now	ADV	_	35 sea	advmod
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 sea	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sea	det
35	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 land	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 frozen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · passive		much water			in the Ice Age	into ice sheets	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	is	past	the sea					low property	tree rules
3	walk	could	people		America	Asia		over land	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to america=Result
4	is	present	land			the sea	now		tree rules

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:15.

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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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