Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 12

Glyptodon was an armadillo relative with a shell as big as a small car, a plant-eater; early people in South America may have used empty shells as shelters.

Who acts: Glyptodon, early people · What happens: be, use · To what, where: armadillo, empty shells

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 (Glyptodon, early people), 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	Glyptodon	Glyptodon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 armadillo	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 armadillo	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 armadillo	det
4	armadillo	armadillo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	relative	relative	NOUN	_	4 armadillo	compound
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 shell	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shell	det
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 relative	nmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 big	advmod
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shell	amod
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 car	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 car	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 car	amod
14	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 big	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 armadillo	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 eater	det
17	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eater	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 plant	punct
19	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 armadillo	appos
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 used	punct
21	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 used	nsubj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 America	case
24	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 America	compound
25	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 people	nmod
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 used	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 used	aux
28	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 armadillo	conj
29	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shells	amod
30	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 used	obj
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 shelters	case
32	shelters	shelter	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 used	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 armadillo	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Glyptodon	a armadillo					tree rules
2	use	may · perfect	early people in South America	empty shells				as shelters	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent shell=Duration as shelter=Attribute

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:12.

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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/12/