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title: Other mammal giants came later: a wombat-like animal the size of a h… — Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Dipr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Other mammal giants came later: a wombat-like animal the size of a hippo in Australia, a beaver as big as a black bear in North America, and a giant ape in the forests of southern China. Who acts: Other mammal giants. A sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, 
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# Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 2

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Other mammal giants came later: a wombat-like animal the size of a hippo in Australia, a beaver as big as a black bear in North America, and a giant ape in the forests of southern China.

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**Who acts:** Other mammal giants · **What happens:** come

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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 (Other mammal giants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.lesson:2
# text = Other mammal giants came later: a wombat-like animal the size of a hippo in Australia, a beaver as big as a black bear in North America, and a giant ape in the forests of southern China.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.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): no change
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	wombat	wombat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hippo	hippo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ape	ape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Other mammal giants |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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/).

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