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title: Most woolly mammoths died out about 10,000 years ago, but a small gr… — Ice Age: real woolly mammoths · tree and pragmatics
description: Most woolly mammoths died out about 10,000 years ago, but a small group lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 4,000 years ago, when the Egyptian pyramids were already standing. Who acts: Most woolly mammoths, small group, Egyptian pyramids. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real w
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# Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 11

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Most woolly mammoths died out about 10,000 years ago, but a small group lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 4,000 years ago, when the Egyptian pyramids were already standing.

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**Who acts:** Most woolly mammoths, small group, Egyptian pyramids · **What happens:** die out, live, stand · **To what, where:** Wrangel Island

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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 (Most woolly mammoths, small group, Egyptian pyramids), 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:11
# text = Most woolly mammoths died out about 10,000 years ago, but a small group lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 4,000 years ago, when the Egyptian pyramids were already standing.
# 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 ×2
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Wrangel	Wrangel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	until	until	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	already	already	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **die out** | past | Most woolly mammoths |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **live** | past | a small group |  |  | Wrangel Island | year | in the Arctic Ocean | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location |
| 3 | **stand** | past · progressive | the Egyptian pyramids |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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 ×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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