The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 13
During the last Ice Age huge sheets of ice covered the north, and people lived alongside woolly mammoths, cave bears and giant deer.
Who acts: huge sheets, people · What happens: cover, live · To what, where: north, woolly mammoths
This is a sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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 (huge sheets, people), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 5 Age | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Age | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Age | amod |
| 4 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Age | compound |
| 5 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 covered | obl |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sheets | amod |
| 7 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 covered | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ice | case |
| 9 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sheets | nmod |
| 10 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 north | det |
| 12 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 covered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lived | cc |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 covered | conj |
| 17 | alongside | alongside | ADP | _ | 19 mammoths | case |
| 18 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mammoths | amod |
| 19 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lived | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bears | punct |
| 21 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bears | compound |
| 22 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mammoths | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 deer | cc |
| 24 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 deer | amod |
| 25 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mammoths | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | huge sheets of ice | the north | during the last Ice Age | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme north=Destination | |||
| 2 | live | past | people | woolly mammoths and cave bears and giant deer | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme alongside mammoth=Location |
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:history:001-the-first-people.lesson:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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