Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 7

The animals built for the cold steppe disappeared, though scientists still argue how much was climate and how much was people.

Who acts: animals, scientists · What happens: build, disappear, argue, be · To what, where: animals, much climate, much people

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 (animals, scientists), 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	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 disappeared	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 animals	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 steppe	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steppe	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 steppe	amod
7	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obl
8	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 argue	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 argue	mark
11	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 argue	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 argue	advmod
13	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 disappeared	advcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 climate	amod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 climate	cop
17	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 argue	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 people	cc
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 people	cop
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 climate	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	participle		the animals not said here		for the cold steppe	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for steppe=Asset
2	disappear	past	the animals				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	argue speech: disagree	present	scientists		still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		much climate and much people			tree rules
5	is a	past		much people			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:7.

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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