Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 8

Mammoths died out as the climate warmed, their grassy steppe shrank and people hunted them; most scientists think both causes worked together, and island groups lasted longest.

Who acts: Mammoths, climate, grassy steppe, people, most scientists, causes · What happens: die out, warm, shrink, hunt, think, work together · To what, where: mammoth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mammoths, climate, grassy steppe, 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	Mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 died	compound:prt
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 warmed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 climate	det
6	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warmed	nsubj
7	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shrank	punct
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 steppe	nmod:poss
10	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 steppe	amod
11	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shrank	nsubj
12	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hunted	cc
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hunted	nsubj
15	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shrank	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hunted	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 think	punct
18	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 scientists	amod
19	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 think	nsubj
20	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 died	parataxis
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	22 causes	det
22	causes	cause	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 worked	nsubj
23	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 think	ccomp
24	together	together	ADV	_	23 worked	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lasted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lasted	cc
27	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 groups	compound
28	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lasted	nsubj
29	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 think	conj
30	longest	long	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 lasted	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 died	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die out	past	Mammoths			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	warm	past	the climate			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	shrink	past	mammoth's grassy steppe			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	hunt	past	people	mammoth		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	think speech: other	present	most scientists			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	work together	past	both causes		together property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	last	past	island groups		long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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:8.

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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