Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 8
Bones, frozen bodies, cave paintings and chewed scraps are the clues that let us picture this lost world.
Who acts: Bones, clues, us · What happens: freeze, chew, be, let, picture, lose · To what, where: clues, us, lost world
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 (Bones, clues, us), 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 | Bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clues | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bodies | punct |
| 3 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bodies | amod |
| 4 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bones | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 paintings | punct |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paintings | compound |
| 7 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bones | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 scraps | cc |
| 9 | chewed | chew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 scraps | amod |
| 10 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bones | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 clues | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clues | det |
| 13 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 let | nsubj |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 clues | acl:relcl |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | picture | picture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 world | det |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 world | amod |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 picture | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 clues | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | chew | participle | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Bones and frozen bodies and cave paintings and chewed scraps | the clues | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let | present | the clues | us | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | picture | infinitive | us not said here | this lost world | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent world=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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