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title: The film mixes things up for fun: a real sabre-tooth would have hunt… — Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glypt… · tree and pragmatics
description: The film mixes things up for fun: a real sabre-tooth would have hunted a young mammoth, not walked beside it, and dodos lived on one warm island far from any ice. Who acts: film, real sabre tooth, dodos. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» of t
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# Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 2

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The film mixes things up for fun: a real sabre-tooth would have hunted a young mammoth, not walked beside it, and dodos lived on one warm island far from any ice.

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**Who acts:** film, real sabre tooth, dodos · **What happens:** mix up, hunt, not walk, live · **To what, where:** things, young mammoth, tooth, one warm island

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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 (film, real sabre tooth, dodos), 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:2
# text = The film mixes things up for fun: a real sabre-tooth would have hunted a young mammoth, not walked beside it, and dodos lived on one warm island far from any ice.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mixes	mix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
23	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	dodos	dodo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix up** | present | the film | things |  |  |  | for fun | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Product for fun=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **hunt** | would · perfect | a real sabre tooth | a young mammoth |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **walk** | participle | a real sabre tooth *not said here* |  |  | tooth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=Trajectory |
| 4 | **live** | past | dodos |  |  | one warm island from any ice |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |

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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): 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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