Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 5
Cave bears slept through the winter in caves, and many never woke up, so some caves hold the bones of thousands.
Who acts: Cave bears, many, caves · What happens: sleep, not wake up, hold · To what, where: caves, bones
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 (Cave bears, many, caves), 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 | Cave | cave | NOUN | _ | 2 bears | compound |
| 2 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 winter | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 winter | det |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slept | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 caves | case |
| 8 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 woke | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 woke | cc |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woke | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 woke | advmod |
| 13 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slept | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 woke | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hold | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 hold | advmod |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 caves | det |
| 18 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hold | nsubj |
| 19 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slept | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bones | det |
| 21 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hold | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 thousands | case |
| 23 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bones | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slept | 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 | sleep | past | Cave bears | caves | winter | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location | |||
| 2 | not wake up | past | many | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hold | present | some caves | the bones of thousands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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