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title: In Australia, Diprotodon, a wombat relative as big as a hippo, and g… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, g… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Australia, Diprotodon, a wombat relative as big as a hippo, and giant kangaroos lived until about 40,000 years ago and died out after people arrived. Who acts: Diprotodon, people. A sentence of the lesson «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» of the biol
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# Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 15

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In Australia, Diprotodon, a wombat relative as big as a hippo, and giant kangaroos lived until about 40,000 years ago and died out after people arrived.

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**Who acts:** Diprotodon, people · **What happens:** live, die out, arrive · **To what, where:** Australia

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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 (Diprotodon, 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:15
# text = In Australia, Diprotodon, a wombat relative as big as a hippo, and giant kangaroos lived until about 40,000 years ago and died out after people arrived.
# 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 ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Diprotodon	Diprotodon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wombat	wombat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos
8	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hippo	hippo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
18	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	until	until	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	40,000	40000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | Diprotodon and giant kangaroos |  |  | Australia | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location |
| 2 | **die out** | past | Diprotodon and giant kangaroos *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 ×3. **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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