Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 20
The last mammoths lived on a small Arctic island until about 4,000 years ago, when the pyramids of Egypt were already built.
Who acts: last mammoths · What happens: live, build · To what, where: small Arctic island, pyramids
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 (last mammoths), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mammoths | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mammoths | amod |
| 3 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 island | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 island | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 island | amod |
| 8 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 island | amod |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 10 | until | until | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 4,000 | advmod |
| 12 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ago | obl |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 built | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 built | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pyramids | det |
| 18 | pyramids | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 built | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Egypt | case |
| 20 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 pyramids | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 built | aux:pass |
| 22 | already | already | ADV | _ | 23 built | advmod |
| 23 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lived | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | 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 | live | past | the last mammoths | a small Arctic island | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | the pyramids of Egypt | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses.lesson:20.
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 ×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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