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title: Manny is a fair picture: real woolly mammoths were close relatives o… — Ice Age: real woolly mammoths · tree and pragmatics
description: Manny is a fair picture: real woolly mammoths were close relatives of elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, about as tall as an African elephant, with two coats of hair and a fatty hump. Who acts: Manny, real woolly mammoths. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» of the
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# Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 1

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Manny is a fair picture: real woolly mammoths were close relatives of elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, about as tall as an African elephant, with two coats of hair and a fatty hump.

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**Who acts:** Manny, real woolly mammoths · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fair picture, close relatives

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» 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 (Manny, real woolly mammoths), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths.lesson:1
# text = Manny is a fair picture: real woolly mammoths were close relatives of elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, about as tall as an African elephant, with two coats of hair and a fatty hump.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×2
1	Manny	Manny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nmod
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	fatty	fatty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Manny | a fair picture |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | real woolly mammoths | close relatives |  |  |  | of elephants | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | real woolly mammoths *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of all; to the Asian elephant | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Manny *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a African elephant; with two coats of hair and a fatty hump; about *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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