--- title: Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used their bones, tusks and skins… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, g… · tree and pragmatics description: Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used their bones, tusks and skins; at Mezhyrich in Ukraine they built huts from the bones of dozens of mammoths. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/) / 7 # Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 7 Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used their bones, tusks and skins; at Mezhyrich in Ukraine they built huts from the bones of dozens of mammoths. **Who acts:** Age people, mammoth · **What happens:** hunt, use, build · **To what, where:** mammoths, bones, huts, Mezhyrich 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:7 # text = Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used their bones, tusks and skins; at Mezhyrich in Ukraine they built huts from the bones of dozens of mammoths. # 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 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|Number=Plur|Person=3|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|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 tusks tusk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Mezhyrich Mezhyrich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 21 huts hut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 dozens dozen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 mammoths mammoth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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* | mammoth's bones and tusks and skins | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 3 | **build** | past | mammoth | huts | | Mezhyrich in Ukraine | | from the bones of dozens of mammoths | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset hut=Product from bone=Material | 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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