Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 18
Ice Age Ukraine was mostly cold dry grassland, the mammoth steppe, and the steppe bison was bigger than today's bison with longer horns.
Who acts: Ice Age, steppe bison · What happens: be · To what, where: cold dry grassland
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 (Ice Age, steppe bison), 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 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Age | compound |
| 2 | Age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grassland | nsubj |
| 3 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Age | appos |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grassland | cop |
| 5 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 8 grassland | advmod |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grassland | amod |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grassland | amod |
| 8 | grassland | grassland | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 steppe | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 steppe | det |
| 11 | mammoth | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 steppe | compound |
| 12 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grassland | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bigger | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bigger | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bison | det |
| 16 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bison | compound |
| 17 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bigger | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bigger | cop |
| 19 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 grassland | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 bison | case |
| 21 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bison | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 today | case |
| 23 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bigger | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 horns | case |
| 25 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 horns | amod |
| 26 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bison | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grassland | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ice Age | cold dry grassland and the mammoth steppe | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the steppe bison | than today's bison with longer horns; big property | tree rules |
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:18.
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, R8-pos-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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