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title: Glyptodon was an armadillo relative with a shell as big as a small c… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, g… · tree and pragmatics
description: Glyptodon was an armadillo relative with a shell as big as a small car, a plant-eater; early people in South America may have used empty shells as shelters. Who acts: Glyptodon, early people. A sentence of the lesson «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» of
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# Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 12

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Glyptodon was an armadillo relative with a shell as big as a small car, a plant-eater; early people in South America may have used empty shells as shelters.

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**Who acts:** Glyptodon, early people · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** armadillo, empty shells

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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 (Glyptodon, early people), 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:12
# text = Glyptodon was an armadillo relative with a shell as big as a small car, a plant-eater; early people in South America may have used empty shells as shelters.
# 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	Glyptodon	Glyptodon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	armadillo	armadillo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	_	4	compound	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
29	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	shelters	shelter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | Glyptodon | a armadillo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | may · perfect | early people in South America | empty shells |  |  |  | as shelters | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent shell=Duration as shelter=Attribute |

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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:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants.lesson:12`.

**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.

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

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