--- title: We know all this because frozen ground in Siberia works like a freez… — Ice Age: real woolly mammoths · tree and pragmatics description: We know all this because frozen ground in Siberia works like a freezer: baby mammoths have been found almost whole, one still with milk in her stomach, and Ice Age people painted mammoths on cave walls. Who acts: We, frozen ground, Age people. 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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 (We, frozen ground, Age people), 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:3 # text = We know all this because frozen ground in Siberia works like a freezer: baby mammoths have been found almost whole, one still with milk in her stomach, and Ice Age people painted mammoths on cave walls. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obj _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Siberia Siberia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 freezer freezer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 15 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 mammoths mammoth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 20 almost almost ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 appos _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 Ice Ice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 Age age PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 painted paint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 36 mammoths mammoth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | We | this | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 2 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **work** | present | frozen ground in Siberia | | | | | like a freezer | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | present · perfect · passive | | baby mammoths | | | | whole *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **paint** | past | Age people | mammoths | | cave walls | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme on wall=Destination | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths.lesson:3`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/2/) - next →: [Ice Age: real woolly mammoths, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/)