Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 12

Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic until about 4,000 years ago, so a few mammoths were still alive after the Great Pyramid was built.

Who acts: Woolly mammoths, few mammoths · What happens: survive, be, build · To what, where: Wrangel Island, Great Pyramid

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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 (Woolly mammoths, few mammoths), 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	Woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mammoths	amod
2	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 survived	nsubj
3	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 Island	case
5	Wrangel	Wrangel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Island	compound
6	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 survived	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Arctic	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Arctic	det
9	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 survived	obl
10	until	until	ADP	_	13 years	case
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 4,000	advmod
12	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ago	obl:unmarked
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 survived	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 alive	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	22 alive	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mammoths	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mammoths	amod
19	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 alive	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 alive	cop
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 alive	advmod
22	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 survived	parataxis
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	28 built	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Pyramid	det
25	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Pyramid	amod
26	Pyramid	pyramid	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 built	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 built	aux:pass
28	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 alive	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 survived	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	past	Woolly mammoths		Wrangel Island		in the Arctic; ago property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location
2	is	past	a few mammoths			still	alive property	tree rules
3	build	past · passive		the Great Pyramid				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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:085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.lesson:12.

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): 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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