Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 0

In the cartoon «Ice Age» a mammoth, a sabre-toothed cat and a ground sloth travel together, and all three were real animals, though they never talked and the sloth was far bigger than the cartoon one.

Who acts: mammoth, three, sloth · What happens: tooth, travel, be, not talk · To what, where: cartoon Ice Age, real animals

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» 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 (mammoth, three, sloth), 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	_	6 Age	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Age	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Age	compound
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Ice	punct
5	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Age	compound
6	Age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 travel	obl
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 Age	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mammoth	det
9	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 travel	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cat	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cat	det
12	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 toothed	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 sabre	punct
14	toothed	tooth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 cat	amod
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mammoth	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sloth	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sloth	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sloth	compound
19	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cat	conj
20	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 travel	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 animals	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 animals	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 three	det:predet
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 animals	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 animals	cop
27	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 animals	amod
28	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 travel	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 talked	punct
30	though	though	SCONJ	_	33 talked	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 talked	nsubj
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 talked	advmod
33	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 animals	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bigger	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sloth	det
36	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bigger	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 bigger	cop
38	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 bigger	advmod
39	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 talked	conj
40	than	than	ADP	_	43 one	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 one	det
42	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 one	compound
43	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bigger	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 travel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tooth	participle					tree rules
2	travel	present	a mammoth and a toothed cat and a ground sloth		in the cartoon Ice Age	together property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Trajectory
3	is a	past	all three	real animals			tree rules
4	not talk	past	mammoth				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the sloth			than the cartoon one; big, far property	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:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants.lesson:0.

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. 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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