Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 2
The frozen ground of Siberia works like a giant freezer, and in 2007 it gave up Lyuba, a baby mammoth about a month old, so well kept that there was still milk in her stomach.
Who acts: frozen ground, ground, milk · What happens: freeze, work, give up, keep, be · To what, where: Lyuba, 2007
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 (frozen ground, ground, milk), 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 ground | det |
| 2 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ground | amod |
| 3 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 works | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Siberia | case |
| 5 | Siberia | Siberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ground | nmod |
| 6 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 freezer | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 freezer | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 freezer | amod |
| 10 | freezer | freezer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 works | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 2007 | case |
| 14 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 gave | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 works | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 gave | compound:prt |
| 18 | Lyuba | Lyuba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mammoth | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mammoth | det |
| 21 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mammoth | compound |
| 22 | mammoth | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Lyuba | appos |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 month | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 month | det |
| 25 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 old | obl |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mammoth | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 kept | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 kept | advmod |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 kept | advmod |
| 30 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 works | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 was | mark |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 was | expl |
| 33 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 kept | ccomp |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 33 was | advmod |
| 35 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 was | nsubj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 stomach | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 38 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 milk | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | work | present | the frozen ground of Siberia | like a giant freezer | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give up | past | ground | Lyuba | 2007 | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lyuba=Source | |||
| 4 | keep | participle | the frozen ground of Siberia not said here | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | past | milk in Lyuba's stomach | there | still | vn exist-47.1 «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:2.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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