Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 15
At Mezhyrich in Ukraine, about 15,000 years ago, people built huts from mammoth bones, with jaws stacked in a neat zigzag.
Who acts: people · What happens: build, stack · To what, where: huts, Mezhyrich, jaws, neat zigzag
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Mezhyrich | case |
| 2 | Mezhyrich | Mezhyrich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ukraine | case |
| 4 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mezhyrich | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mezhyrich | punct |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 15,000 | advmod |
| 7 | 15,000 | 15000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 Mezhyrich | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mezhyrich | punct |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 built | nsubj |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 built | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 bones | case |
| 15 | mammoth | mammoth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bones | amod |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 huts | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 jaws | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 jaws | case |
| 19 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bones | conj |
| 20 | stacked | stack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 jaws | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 zigzag | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 zigzag | det |
| 23 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 zigzag | amod |
| 24 | zigzag | zigzag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stacked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 built | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | people | huts | Mezhyrich in Ukraine | from mammoth bones and jaws | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent hut=Product from bone=Material | ||
| 2 | stack | participle | jaws not said here | a neat zigzag | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in zigzag=Destination |
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:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses.lesson:15.
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): no change. 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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