Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 5

When climates changed, forests shrank and, in some places, people arrived and hunted, so many giants died out.

Who acts: climates, forests, people, many giants · What happens: change, shrink, arrive, hunt, die out · To what, where: places

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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 (climates, forests, people, many giants), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 changed	advmod
2	climates	climate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 changed	nsubj
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shrank	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct
5	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shrank	nsubj
6	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 arrived	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 and	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 places	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 places	det
11	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 arrived	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 arrived	nsubj
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shrank	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hunted	cc
16	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 arrived	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 died	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 many	advmod
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 giants	amod
20	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 died	nsubj
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shrank	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 died	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shrank	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	change	past	climates		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shrink	past	forests		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	arrive	past	people	some places	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hunt	past	people not said here		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	die out	past	many giants		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.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): R6-punct-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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