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title: Woolly mammoths were mammals with fur that fed their babies milk; th… — Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Woolly mammoths were mammals with fur that fed their babies milk; they lived until about 4,000 years ago and never met dinosaurs. Who acts: Woolly mammoths, fur, mammoths. A sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» of the biology course of Mov
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# Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 15

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Woolly mammoths were mammals with fur that fed their babies milk; they lived until about 4,000 years ago and never met dinosaurs.

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**Who acts:** Woolly mammoths, fur, mammoths · **What happens:** be, feed, live, not meet · **To what, where:** mammals, babies milk, dinosaurs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» 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 (Woolly mammoths, fur, mammoths), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:15
# text = Woolly mammoths were mammals with fur that fed their babies milk; they lived until about 4,000 years ago and never met dinosaurs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.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	Woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	until	until	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
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 | **is a** | past | Woolly mammoths | mammals |  |  |  | with fur | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | past | fur | mammoths's babies milk |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past | mammoths *= mammoth* |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **meet** | past | mammoths *= mammoth* *not said here* | dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Co-Agent |

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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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**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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