--- title: Some scientists hope to make cold-proof elephants with some mammoth… — Ice Age: real woolly mammoths · tree and pragmatics description: Some scientists hope to make cold-proof elephants with some mammoth features, but it has not been done, and many people question whether it should be. Who acts: scientists, many people, elephant. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scientists, many people, elephant), 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:19 # text = Some scientists hope to make cold-proof elephants with some mammoth features, but it has not been done, and many people question whether it should be. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 proof proof ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 12 mammoth mammoth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 features feature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 question question VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hope** | present | some scientists | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | some scientists *not said here* | proof elephants | | | | with some mammoth features | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elephant=Product | | 3 | **not** **do** | present · perfect · passive | | elephant | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **question** *speech: other* | present | many people | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | should | elephant | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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](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. 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