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title: In the cartoon «Ice Age» a mammoth, a sabre-toothed cat and a ground… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, g… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the cartoon «Ice Age» a mammoth, a sabre-toothed cat and a ground sloth travel together, and all three were real animals, though they never talked and the sloth was far bigger than the cartoon one. Who acts: mammoth, three, sloth. A sentence of the lesson «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-t
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# Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 0

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In the cartoon «Ice Age» a mammoth, a sabre-toothed cat and a ground sloth travel together, and all three were real animals, though they never talked and the sloth was far bigger than the cartoon one.

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**Who acts:** mammoth, three, sloth · **What happens:** tooth, travel, be, not talk · **To what, where:** cartoon Ice Age, real animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» 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 (mammoth, three, sloth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants.lesson:0
# text = In the cartoon «Ice Age» a mammoth, a sabre-toothed cat and a ground sloth travel together, and all three were real animals, though they never talked and the sloth was far bigger than the cartoon one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants.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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	Age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	toothed	tooth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sloth	sloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sloth	sloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
39	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	conj	_	_
40	than	than	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **tooth** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **travel** | present | a mammoth and a toothed cat and a ground sloth |  |  |  | in the cartoon Ice Age | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is a** | past | all three | real animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **talk** | past | mammoth |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | the sloth |  |  |  |  | than the cartoon one; big, far *property* | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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