Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 15

In Australia, Diprotodon, a wombat relative as big as a hippo, and giant kangaroos lived until about 40,000 years ago and died out after people arrived.

Who acts: Diprotodon, people · What happens: live, die out, arrive · To what, where: Australia

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 (Diprotodon, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Australia	case
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 lived	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Diprotodon	punct
4	Diprotodon	Diprotodon	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 lived	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wombat	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wombat	det
7	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 relative	compound
8	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Diprotodon	appos
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 big	advmod
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 relative	amod
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 hippo	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hippo	det
13	hippo	hippo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 big	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kangaroos	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kangaroos	cc
16	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 kangaroos	amod
17	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Diprotodon	conj
18	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	until	until	ADP	_	22 years	case
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 40,000	advmod
21	40,000	40000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lived	obl
23	ago	ago	ADV	_	22 years	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 died	cc
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lived	conj
26	out	out	ADV	_	25 died	advmod
27	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 arrived	mark
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 arrived	nsubj
29	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 died	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 lived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Diprotodon and giant kangaroos	Australia	year		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location
2	die out	past	Diprotodon and giant kangaroos not said here			out property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	arrive	past	people				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:15.

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 ×3. 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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