--- title: At the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles animals got stuck in sticky t… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, g… · tree and pragmatics description: At the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles animals got stuck in sticky tar, predators came to eat them and got stuck too, so the pits hold many more meat-eaters than plant-eaters, including thousands of Smilodon bones. Who acts: animals, predators, pits. 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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 (animals, predators, pits), 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:10 # text = At the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles animals got stuck in sticky tar, predators came to eat them and got stuck too, so the pits hold many more meat-eaters than plant-eaters, including thousands of Smilodon bones. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 La La PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 4 Brea Brea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 pits pit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Los Los PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 Angeles Angeles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 pits pit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 31 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 amod _ _ 33 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 36 than than ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 including include ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 Smilodon smilodon NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | animals | | | the La tar pits in Los | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **come** | past | predators | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | predators *not said here* | predators *= predator* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **get** | past | predators *not said here* | | | | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **hold** | present | the pits | more meat eaters | | | | than plant eaters; include thousands of Smilodon bones | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eater=Theme | 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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