Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 17
Neanderthals made tools, used fire, buried their dead and maybe made art; their brains were as big as ours, and they had children with our ancestors.
Who acts: Neanderthals, brains · What happens: make, use, bury, be, have · To what, where: tools, fire, dead, children
This is a sentence of the lesson «Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links» 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 (Neanderthals, brains), 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 | Neanderthals | neanderthal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 buried | punct |
| 8 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dead | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 buried | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 art | cc |
| 12 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 13 made | advmod |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 art | amod |
| 14 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buried | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 big | punct |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brains | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 big | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 big | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 big | advmod |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 buried | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 ours | case |
| 22 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 big | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 had | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 buried | conj |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 had | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 ancestors | case |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 had | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Neanderthals | tools | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tool=Product | ||||
| 2 | use | past | Neanderthals not said here | fire | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bury | past | Neanderthals not said here | Neanderthals's dead | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme art=Destination | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | maybe property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Neanderthals's brains | as ours; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | brains = brain | children | with our ancestors | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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:280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.lesson:17.
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, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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