Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 3
Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used every part; in Ukraine, at Mezhyrich, they built huts out of mammoth bones from dozens of animals.
Who acts: Age people, mammoth · What happens: hunt, use, build · To what, where: mammoths, part, huts, Ukraine
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 (Age people, mammoth), 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 | Ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Age | compound |
| 2 | Age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | compound |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunted | nsubj |
| 4 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 used | cc |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunted | conj |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 part | det |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ukraine | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Ukraine | case |
| 12 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 built | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Mezhyrich | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Mezhyrich | case |
| 15 | Mezhyrich | Mezhyrich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 built | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 built | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 built | nsubj |
| 18 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunted | parataxis |
| 19 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 built | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 bones | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bones | case |
| 22 | mammoth | mammoth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bones | compound |
| 23 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 built | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 dozens | case |
| 25 | dozens | dozen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bones | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 animals | case |
| 27 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dozens | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | Age people | mammoths | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | past | Age people not said here | every part | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 3 | build | past | mammoth | huts | Ukraine | at Mezhyrich; out mammoth bones from dozens of animals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product |
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:3.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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