--- title: Smilodon, the sabre-toothed cat, had canine teeth about 18 centimetr… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, g… · tree and pragmatics description: Smilodon, the sabre-toothed cat, had canine teeth about 18 centimetres long and a powerful neck; it was not a tiger but a cat from a separate branch. Who acts: Smilodon, steppe. 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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 (Smilodon, steppe), 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:9 # text = Smilodon, the sabre-toothed cat, had canine teeth about 18 centimetres long and a powerful neck; it was not a tiger but a cat from a separate branch. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Smilodon Smilodon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 sabre sabre NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 toothed tooth VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 canine canine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tooth** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | Smilodon | canine teeth and a powerful neck | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 3 | **not** **is a** | past | steppe | a tiger but a cat from a separate branch | | | | | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants.lesson:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/8/) - next →: [Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/)