Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 6
Thousands of Smilodon skeletons were found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles: plant-eaters got stuck in the tar and the hunters that came to eat them got stuck too.
Who acts: plant eaters, hunters · What happens: find, get, come, eat · To what, where: Thousands, La Pits, hunters
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 (plant eaters, hunters), 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 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 skeletons | case |
| 3 | Smilodon | Smilodon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 skeletons | compound |
| 4 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Pits | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Pits | det |
| 9 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Pits | compound |
| 10 | Brea | Brea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 La | flat |
| 11 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brea | flat |
| 12 | Pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Los | case |
| 14 | Los | Los | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Pits | nmod |
| 15 | Angeles | Angeles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Los | flat |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 17 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eaters | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 plant | punct |
| 19 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | parataxis |
| 21 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 got | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 tar | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tar | det |
| 24 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stuck | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 got | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hunters | det |
| 27 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 got | nsubj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hunters | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 eat | mark |
| 31 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 came | xcomp |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 eat | obj |
| 33 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 got | conj |
| 34 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stuck | conj |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 34 stuck | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | Thousands of Smilodon skeletons | the La Pits in Los | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | past | plant eaters | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the hunters | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | the hunters not said here | hunters = hunter | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | get | past | the hunters | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:6.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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