Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 7

Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used their bones, tusks and skins; at Mezhyrich in Ukraine they built huts from the bones of dozens of mammoths.

Who acts: Age people, mammoth · What happens: hunt, use, build · To what, where: mammoths, bones, huts, Mezhyrich

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 Number=Plur Person=3 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 Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunted	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bones	nmod:poss
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 used	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tusks	punct
11	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bones	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 skins	cc
13	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bones	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 Mezhyrich	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 Mezhyrich	case
16	Mezhyrich	Mezhyrich	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 built	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Ukraine	case
18	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mezhyrich	nmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 built	nsubj
20	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 used	parataxis
21	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 built	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 bones	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bones	det
24	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 built	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 dozens	case
26	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bones	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 mammoths	case
28	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dozens	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hunted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	mammoth's bones and tusks and skins			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
3	build	past	mammoth	huts	Mezhyrich in Ukraine	from the bones of dozens of mammoths	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset hut=Product from bone=Material

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:7.

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. 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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