Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 10

At the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles animals got stuck in sticky tar, predators came to eat them and got stuck too, so the pits hold many more meat-eaters than plant-eaters, including thousands of Smilodon bones.

Who acts: animals, predators, pits · What happens: get, come, eat, hold · To what, where: La tar pits, predators, more meat eaters

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 (animals, predators, pits), 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	At	at	ADP	_	6 pits	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pits	det
3	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pits	compound
4	Brea	Brea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 La	flat
5	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pits	compound
6	pits	pit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 got	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Los	case
8	Los	Los	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pits	nmod
9	Angeles	Angeles	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Los	flat
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 tar	case
14	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tar	amod
15	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stuck	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
17	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 got	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	xcomp
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 eat	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 got	cc
23	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
24	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 got	xcomp
25	too	too	ADV	_	23 got	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hold	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	30 hold	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pits	det
29	pits	pit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hold	nsubj
30	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 got	parataxis
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 eaters	amod
33	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eaters	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 meat	punct
35	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hold	obj
36	than	than	ADP	_	39 eaters	case
37	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eaters	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 plant	punct
39	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 eaters	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 thousands	punct
41	including	include	ADP	_	42 thousands	case
42	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hold	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 bones	case
44	Smilodon	smilodon	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 bones	compound
45	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 thousands	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	animals		the La tar pits in Los	stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	past	predators				tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	predators not said here	predators = predator			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	get	past	predators not said here			stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	hold	present	the pits	more meat eaters		than plant eaters; include thousands of Smilodon bones	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eater=Theme

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:10.

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, 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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