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title: Woolly mammoths were about 3 metres tall at the shoulder, about as t… — Ice Age: real woolly mammoths · tree and pragmatics
description: Woolly mammoths were about 3 metres tall at the shoulder, about as tall as an African elephant; the steppe mammoth and the Columbian mammoth could be over 4 metres. Who acts: Woolly mammoths, steppe mammoth. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» of the biology course of Mova's pri
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# Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 14

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Woolly mammoths were about 3 metres tall at the shoulder, about as tall as an African elephant; the steppe mammoth and the Columbian mammoth could be over 4 metres.

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**Who acts:** Woolly mammoths, steppe mammoth · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** shoulder, 4 metres

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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 (Woolly mammoths, steppe mammoth), 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:14
# text = Woolly mammoths were about 3 metres tall at the shoulder, about as tall as an African elephant; the steppe mammoth and the Columbian mammoth could be over 4 metres.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Columbian	Columbian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
26	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
29	over	over	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## 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** | past | Woolly mammoths |  |  | the shoulder |  | 3 metres *obl:unmarked*; tall *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | could | the steppe mammoth and the Columbian mammoth | 4 metres |  |  |  |  | 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:14`.

**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 ×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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