--- title: Diego's real kind is Smilodon, an extinct cat whose two upper fangs… — Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glypt… · tree and pragmatics description: Diego's real kind is Smilodon, an extinct cat whose two upper fangs could be about 28 centimetres long; it was not a tiger but a separate, extinct branch of the cat family. Who acts: real kind, two upper fangs, kind. 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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 (real kind, two upper fangs, kind), 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:4 # text = Diego's real kind is Smilodon, an extinct cat whose two upper fangs could be about 28 centimetres long; it was not a tiger but a separate, extinct branch of the cat family. # 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 Diego Diego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 6 Smilodon Smilodon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 fangs fang NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 15 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 28 28 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 acl:relcl _ _ 20 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 29 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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** | present | Diego's real kind | a extinct cat | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | could | 28 centimetres's two upper fangs | 28 centimetres | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is a** | past | kind | a tiger but a separate extinct branch of the cat family | | | | | tree rules | 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:4`. **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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