The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 5

A company is trying to add mammoth genes to Asian elephant cells to make a cold-adapted elephant; it would be a new kind of elephant, not a true mammoth, and in 2025 it was reported to have made woolly mice with long golden hair as a test.

Who acts: company · What happens: try, add, make, adapt, be, not be · To what, where: mammoth genes, adapted elephant, new kind, company, 2025, woolly mice

This is a sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 (company), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 company	det
2	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trying	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 add	mark
6	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 genes	amod
8	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 add	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 cells	case
10	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cells	amod
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cells	compound
12	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 add	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 add	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 elephant	det
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 adapted	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 cold	punct
18	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 elephant	amod
19	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 kind	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kind	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 kind	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 kind	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 kind	det
25	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kind	amod
26	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trying	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 elephant	case
28	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kind	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 true	punct
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 true	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 true	det
32	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kind	conj
33	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 true	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 reported	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 reported	cc
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 2025	case
37	2025	2025	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	40 reported	obl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 reported	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 reported	aux:pass
40	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 mammoth	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	43 made	mark
42	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 made	aux
43	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 reported	xcomp
44	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 mice	amod
45	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 made	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	49 hair	case
47	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 hair	amod
48	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 hair	amod
49	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 mice	nmod
50	as	as	ADP	_	52 test	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 test	det
52	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 made	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 trying	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	a company				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	add speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	a company not said here	mammoth genes		to Asian elephant cells	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent gene=Patient to cell=Co-Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	a company not said here	a adapted elephant			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elephant=Product
4	adapt	participle					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is a	would	company	a new kind		of elephant	tree rules
6	not be		company not said here				tree rules
7	report	past · passive		company	2025		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
8	make	to-infinitive · perfect		woolly mice		with long golden hair; as a test	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mouse=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:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.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): 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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