--- title: Thousands of Smilodon skeletons were found in the La Brea Tar Pits i… — Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glypt… · tree and pragmatics description: Thousands of Smilodon skeletons were found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles: plant-eaters got stuck in the tar and the hunters that came to eat them got stuck too. Who acts: plant eaters, hunters. 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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 (plant eaters, hunters), 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:6 # text = Thousands of Smilodon skeletons were found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles: plant-eaters got stuck in the tar and the hunters that came to eat them got stuck too. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 Smilodon Smilodon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 skeletons skeleton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 La La PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 10 Brea Brea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 Tar Tar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 Pits pit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Los Los PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 Angeles Angeles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 17 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 21 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 34 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:xcomp 35 too too ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past · passive | | Thousands of Smilodon skeletons | | the La Pits in Los | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **get** | past | plant eaters | | | | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **come** | past | the hunters | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the hunters *not said here* | hunters *= hunter* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **get** | past | the hunters | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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. 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