--- title: A company is trying to add mammoth genes to Asian elephant cells to… — The future of life: de-extinction, climate, cora… · tree and pragmatics description: A company is trying to add mammoth genes to Asian elephant cells to make a cold-adapted elephant; it would be a new kind of elephant, not a true mammoth, and in 2025 it was reported to have made woolly mice with long golden hair as a test. Who acts: company. 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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 (company), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.lesson:5 # text = A company is trying to add mammoth genes to Asian elephant cells to make a cold-adapted elephant; it would be a new kind of elephant, not a true mammoth, and in 2025 it was reported to have made woolly mice with long golden hair as a test. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 mammoth mammoth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 genes gene NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 adapted adapt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 33 mammoth mammoth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 obl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 42 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux _ _ 43 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:advcl 44 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 50 as as ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present · progressive | a company | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a company *not said here* | mammoth genes | | | | to Asian elephant cells | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent gene=Patient to cell=Co-Patient | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | a company *not said here* | a adapted elephant | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elephant=Product | | 4 | **adapt** | participle | | | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | would | company | a new kind | | | | of elephant | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **be** | | company *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **report** | past · passive | | company | | 2025 | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 8 | **make** | to-infinitive · perfect | | woolly mice | | | | with long golden hair; as a test | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mouse=Product | 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:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.lesson:5`. **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): R7-rel-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. 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