--- title: When climates changed, forests shrank and, in some places, people ar… — Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Dipr… · tree and pragmatics description: When climates changed, forests shrank and, in some places, people arrived and hunted, so many giants died out. Who acts: climates, forests, people, many giants. A sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» of the biology cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus/5/) [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/) / [Mammal giants of the past: Paracerathe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus/) / 5 # Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 5 When climates changed, forests shrank and, in some places, people arrived and hunted, so many giants died out. **Who acts:** climates, forests, people, many giants · **What happens:** change, shrink, arrive, hunt, die out · **To what, where:** places 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 (climates, forests, people, many 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:5 # text = When climates changed, forests shrank and, in some places, people arrived and hunted, so many giants died out. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 climates climate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 shrank shrink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **change** | past | climates | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **shrink** | past | forests | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **arrive** | past | people | | | some places | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hunt** | past | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **die out** | past | many giants | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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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