--- title: Frozen ground called permafrost works like a freezer; a baby mammoth… — Ice Age: real woolly mammoths · tree and pragmatics description: Frozen ground called permafrost works like a freezer; a baby mammoth called Lyuba, who died about 42,000 years ago, was found almost whole by a reindeer herder in 2007, with milk still in her stomach. Who acts: Frozen ground, baby mammoth, reindeer herder. 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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 (Frozen ground, baby mammoth, reindeer herder), 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:9 # text = Frozen ground called permafrost works like a freezer; a baby mammoth called Lyuba, who died about 42,000 years ago, was found almost whole by a reindeer herder in 2007, with milk still in her stomach. # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Frozen frozen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 3 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 4 permafrost permafrost NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 5 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 freezer freezer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 mammoth mammoth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 Lyuba Lyuba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl:relcl 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 42,000 42000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 ago ago ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 25 almost almost ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 herder herder NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 2007 2007 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 36 still still ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | Frozen ground *not said here* | permafrost | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **work** | present | Frozen ground | | | | | like a freezer | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | participle | | a baby mammoth *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **die** | past | a baby mammoth | | | | | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **find** | past · passive | a reindeer herder | a baby mammoth | | 2007 | | with milk in mammoth's stomach; whole *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | 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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