Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 5

Woolly mammoths were a bit smaller than African elephants, with long hair, small ears and curly tusks; the last lived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, when the pyramids of Egypt already stood.

Who acts: Woolly mammoths, pyramids · What happens: be, live, stand · To what, where: Wrangel Island

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 (Woolly mammoths, pyramids), 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	Woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mammoths	amod
2	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smaller	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smaller	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smaller	obl:unmarked
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 elephants	case
8	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 elephants	amod
9	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smaller	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hair	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 hair	case
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hair	amod
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smaller	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ears	punct
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ears	amod
16	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hair	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tusks	cc
18	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tusks	amod
19	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ears	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 last	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 last	det
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smaller	nsubj
23	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 last	parataxis
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 Island	case
25	Wrangel	Wrangel	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Island	compound
26	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 lived	obl
27	until	until	ADP	_	30 years	case
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 4,000	advmod
29	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ago	obl:unmarked
31	ago	ago	ADV	_	23 lived	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stood	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 stood	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pyramids	det
35	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 stood	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Egypt	case
37	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 pyramids	nmod
38	already	already	ADV	_	39 stood	advmod
39	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ago	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 smaller	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Woolly mammoths		than African elephants; with long hair and small ears and curly tusks; a bit obl:unmarked; small property	tree rules
2	live	past		Wrangel Island	ago property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location
3	stand	past	the pyramids of Egypt			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:5.

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 ×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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