Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 14

The cave bear was bigger than a brown bear and mostly ate plants; the giant deer called the Irish elk had antlers about 3.5 metres across, grown new each year, and was neither only Irish nor really an elk.

Who acts: cave bear, giant deer · What happens: be, eat, call, have, grow · To what, where: plants, Irish elk, antlers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cave bear, giant deer), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bear	compound
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bigger	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bigger	cop
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 bear	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bear	det
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bear	amod
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bigger	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ate	cc
11	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	12 ate	advmod
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bigger	conj
13	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ate	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 deer	det
16	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 deer	amod
17	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	nsubj
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 deer	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 elk	det
20	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 elk	amod
21	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	obj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bigger	conj
23	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	obj
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 3.5	advmod
25	3.5	3.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 metres	nummod
26	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 across	obl
27	across	across	ADV	_	29 grown	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grown	punct
29	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 had	parataxis
30	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 grown	xcomp
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 year	det
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grown	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Irish	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Irish	cc
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 Irish	cop
36	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	38 Irish	cc:preconj
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 Irish	advmod
38	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ate	parataxis
39	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	42 elk	cc
40	really	really	ADV	_	42 elk	advmod
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 elk	det
42	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Irish	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bigger	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cave bear			than a brown bear; big property	tree rules
2	eat	past	the cave bear not said here	plants		mostly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
3	call	participle	the giant deer not said here	the Irish elk			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elk=Recipient
4	have	past	the giant deer	antlers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient
5	grow	participle			year	across, new property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past				irish 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:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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