Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 3
Long winters and dry winds kept trees away, but grass and herbs fed huge herds of mammoths, horses, bison and woolly rhinos.
Who acts: Long winters, grass · What happens: keep away, fed · To what, where: trees, huge herds
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 (Long winters, grass), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 winters | amod |
| 2 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 winds | cc |
| 4 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 winds | amod |
| 5 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 winters | conj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 kept | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fed | cc |
| 11 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fed | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 herbs | cc |
| 13 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grass | conj |
| 14 | fed | fed | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | conj |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 herds | amod |
| 16 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mammoths | case |
| 18 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 herds | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 horses | punct |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mammoths | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bison | punct |
| 22 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 herds | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rhinos | cc |
| 24 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rhinos | amod |
| 25 | rhinos | rhino | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 herds | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep away | past | Long winters and dry winds | trees | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||
| 2 | fed | past | grass and herbs | huge herds of mammoths and horses and bison and woolly rhinos | 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:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×4, 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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