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title: Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used every part; in Ukraine, at M… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, g… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used every part; in Ukraine, at Mezhyrich, they built huts out of mammoth bones from dozens of animals. Who acts: Age people, mammoth. A sentence of the lesson «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» of the biology course of
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# Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 3

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Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used every part; in Ukraine, at Mezhyrich, they built huts out of mammoth bones from dozens of animals.

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**Who acts:** Age people, mammoth · **What happens:** hunt, use, build · **To what, where:** mammoths, part, huts, Ukraine

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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 (Age people, mammoth), 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:3
# text = Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used every part; in Ukraine, at Mezhyrich, they built huts out of mammoth bones from dozens of animals.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Mezhyrich	Mezhyrich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod
23	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dozens	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **hunt** | past | Age people | mammoths |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | past | Age people *not said here* | every part |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 3 | **build** | past | mammoth | huts |  | Ukraine |  | at Mezhyrich; out mammoth bones from dozens of animals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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