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title: In the Ice Age there lived a giant beaver about as big as a black be… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Ice Age there lived a giant beaver about as big as a black bear. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 17

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In the Ice Age there lived a giant beaver about as big as a black bear.

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**What happens:** live · **To what, where:** giant beaver, Ice Age

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.lesson:17
# text = In the Ice Age there lived a giant beaver about as big as a black bear.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	Age	age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **live** | past |  | a giant beaver |  | there | in the Ice Age |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme beaver=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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**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:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.lesson:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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