--- title: The Ice Age was not ice everywhere either: great ice sheets lay over… — Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glypt… · tree and pragmatics description: The Ice Age was not ice everywhere either: great ice sheets lay over the north, while grassland, forest and desert covered much of the rest of the world. Who acts: Ice Age, great ice sheets, grassland. 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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 (Ice Age, great ice sheets, grassland), 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:3 # text = The Ice Age was not ice everywhere either: great ice sheets lay over the north, while grassland, forest and desert covered much of the rest of the world. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Ice Ice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 Age age PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 8 either either ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 sheets sheet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 over over ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 19 grassland grassland NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 24 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | past | the Ice Age | ice | | | | everywhere *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lie** | past | great ice sheets | | | the north | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over north=Location | | 3 | **cover** | past | grassland and forest and desert | much of the rest of the world | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=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:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. 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