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title: Picture a museum hall with a cat skull whose two fangs are as long a… — Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glypt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a museum hall with a cat skull whose two fangs are as long as your school ruler: that is Smilodon, the real Diego, and its bones were pulled out of a sticky tar pit. Who acts: you, two fangs, that. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» of
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# Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 1

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Picture a museum hall with a cat skull whose two fangs are as long as your school ruler: that is Smilodon, the real Diego, and its bones were pulled out of a sticky tar pit.

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**Who acts:** you, two fangs, that · **What happens:** picture, be, pull out · **To what, where:** museum hall, Smilodon, bones, sticky tar pit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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 (you, two fangs, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:1
# text = Picture a museum hall with a cat skull whose two fangs are as long as your school ruler: that is Smilodon, the real Diego, and its bones were pulled out of a sticky tar pit.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.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	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	fangs	fang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	Smilodon	Smilodon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Diego	Diego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a museum hall |  |  |  | with a cat skull | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hall=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | two fangs |  |  |  |  | as your school ruler; long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | Smilodon and the real Diego |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pull out** | past · passive |  | Diego's bones |  | a sticky tar pit |  |  | 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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**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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