--- title: Glyptodonts were armadillo relatives as big as a small car, covered… — Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glypt… · tree and pragmatics description: Glyptodonts were armadillo relatives as big as a small car, covered in a bony shell that protected them from hunters such as Smilodon. Who acts: Glyptodonts, bony shell. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» of the biology course of Mova's primar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground slo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/) / 12 # Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 12 Glyptodonts were armadillo relatives as big as a small car, covered in a bony shell that protected them from hunters such as Smilodon. **Who acts:** Glyptodonts, bony shell · **What happens:** be, cover, protect · **To what, where:** armadillo relatives, glyptodonts 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 (Glyptodonts, bony shell), 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:12 # text = Glyptodonts were armadillo relatives as big as a small car, covered in a bony shell that protected them from hunters such as Smilodon. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Glyptodonts glyptodont NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 armadillo armadillo NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 bony bony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 protected protect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 24 case _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 Smilodon Smilodon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Glyptodonts | armadillo relatives | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cover** | participle | | armadillo relatives *not said here* | | | | in a bony shell | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in shell=Theme | | 3 | **protect** | past | a bony shell | glyptodonts *= glyptodont* | | | | from hunters such Smilodon | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary from hunter=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1. **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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