Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 3

The Ice Age was not ice everywhere either: great ice sheets lay over the north, while grassland, forest and desert covered much of the rest of the world.

Who acts: Ice Age, great ice sheets, grassland · What happens: not be, lie, cover · To what, where: ice, north, much

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 (Ice Age, great ice sheets, grassland), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Age	det
2	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Age	compound
3	Age	age	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ice	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ice	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ice	advmod
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 ice	advmod
8	either	either	ADV	_	7 everywhere	advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 ice	punct
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sheets	amod
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sheets	compound
12	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ice	parataxis
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 north	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 north	det
16	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grassland	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 covered	mark
19	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 covered	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forest	punct
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grassland	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 desert	cc
23	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grassland	conj
24	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	advcl
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 covered	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 rest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rest	det
28	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 much	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rest	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ice	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	the Ice Age	ice		everywhere property	tree rules
2	lie	past	great ice sheets		the north		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over north=Location
3	cover	past	grassland and forest and desert	much of the rest of the world			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=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:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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