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title: Mammoth bones and teeth are dug up in many countries, including Brit… — Ice Age: real woolly mammoths · tree and pragmatics
description: Mammoth bones and teeth are dug up in many countries, including Britain, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, because mammoths roamed widely across the northern half of the world. Who acts: mammoths. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» of the biology course of Mova's primary 
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# Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, sentence 17

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Mammoth bones and teeth are dug up in many countries, including Britain, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, because mammoths roamed widely across the northern half of the world.

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**Who acts:** mammoths · **What happens:** dig up, roam · **To what, where:** Mammoth bones, many countries, northern half

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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 (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:17
# text = Mammoth bones and teeth are dug up in many countries, including Britain, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, because mammoths roamed widely across the northern half of the world.
# 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): no change
1	Mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	including	include	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	United	United	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
21	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	roamed	roam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
26	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	across	across	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **dig up** | present · passive |  | Mammoth bones and teeth |  | many countries include Britain and Germany and Ukraine and the United States |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in country=Location |
| 2 | **roam** | past | mammoths |  |  | the northern half of the world |  | widely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across half=Trajectory |

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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): no change. **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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