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description: Some Smilodon skeletons show healed injuries, so scientists think they may have lived in groups, though this is still argued about. Who acts: Smilodon skeletons, scientists, skeletons. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» of the biology course o
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# Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 7

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Some Smilodon skeletons show healed injuries, so scientists think they may have lived in groups, though this is still argued about.

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**Who acts:** Smilodon skeletons, scientists, skeletons · **What happens:** show, heal, think, live, argue · **To what, where:** healed injuries, groups, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Smilodon skeletons, scientists, skeletons), 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:7
# text = Some Smilodon skeletons show healed injuries, so scientists think they may have lived in groups, though this is still argued about.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	Smilodon	Smilodon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | some Smilodon skeletons | healed injuries |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent injury=Recipient |
| 2 | **heal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | may · perfect | skeletons *= skeleton* |  |  | groups |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location |
| 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive |  | this |  |  | still | about *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |

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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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**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:7`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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