--- title: Woolly mammoths were a bit smaller than African elephants, with long… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, g… · tree and pragmatics description: Woolly mammoths were a bit smaller than African elephants, with long hair, small ears and curly tusks; the last lived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, when the pyramids of Egypt already stood. Who acts: Woolly mammoths, pyramids. 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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 (Woolly mammoths, pyramids), 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:5 # text = Woolly mammoths were a bit smaller than African elephants, with long hair, small ears and curly tusks; the last lived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, when the pyramids of Egypt already stood. # 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 ×1 1 Woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 mammoths mammoth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 curly curly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tusks tusk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ _ 23 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 Wrangel Wrangel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 until until ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 4,000 4,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 ago ago ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 pyramids pyramid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 already already ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advcl 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Woolly mammoths | | | | | than African elephants; with long hair and small ears and curly tusks; a bit *obl:unmarked*; small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | past | | | | Wrangel Island | | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | | 3 | **stand** | past | the pyramids of Egypt | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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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