--- title: Mammoths died out as the climate warmed, their grassy steppe shrank… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, g… · tree and pragmatics description: Mammoths died out as the climate warmed, their grassy steppe shrank and people hunted them; most scientists think both causes worked together, and island groups lasted longest. Who acts: Mammoths, climate, grassy steppe, people. 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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 (Mammoths, climate, grassy steppe, 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:8 # text = Mammoths died out as the climate warmed, their grassy steppe shrank and people hunted them; most scientists think both causes worked together, and island groups lasted longest. # 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 Mammoths mammoth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 warmed warm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 grassy grassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 steppe steppe NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 shrank shrink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 causes cause NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 together together ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 lasted last VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 longest long ADV RBS Degree=Sup 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die out** | past | Mammoths | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **warm** | past | the climate | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **shrink** | past | mammoth's grassy steppe | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **hunt** | past | people | mammoth | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | most scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **work together** | past | both causes | | | | | together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **last** | past | island groups | | | | | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | 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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