Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 7

Some Smilodon skeletons show healed injuries, so scientists think they may have lived in groups, though this is still argued about.

Who acts: Smilodon skeletons, scientists, skeletons · What happens: show, heal, think, live, argue · To what, where: healed injuries, groups, this · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Smilodon skeletons, scientists, skeletons), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 skeletons	det
2	Smilodon	Smilodon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 skeletons	compound
3	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	healed	heal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 injuries	amod
6	injuries	injury	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 think	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 think	advmod
9	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 think	nsubj
10	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	parataxis
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lived	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 lived	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 lived	aux
14	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 think	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 groups	case
16	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lived	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 argued	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 argued	mark
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 argued	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 argued	aux:pass
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 argued	advmod
22	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 lived	advcl
23	about	about	ADV	_	22 argued	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	some Smilodon skeletons	healed injuries				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent injury=Recipient
2	heal	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	think speech: other	present	scientists					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	live	may · perfect	skeletons = skeleton		groups			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location
5	argue speech: disagree	present · passive		this		still	about property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: 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:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:7.

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 ×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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