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title: Cave lions lived in cold Europe and Asia; cave paintings show them w… — Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cave lions lived in cold Europe and Asia; cave paintings show them without big manes, though we cannot be sure the males had none. Who acts: Cave lions, cave paintings, we, males. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone hous
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# Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 10

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Cave lions lived in cold Europe and Asia; cave paintings show them without big manes, though we cannot be sure the males had none.

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**Who acts:** Cave lions, cave paintings, we, males · **What happens:** live, show, not be, have · **To what, where:** cold Europe, lions, none

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» 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 (Cave lions, cave paintings, we, males), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses.lesson:10
# text = Cave lions lived in cold Europe and Asia; cave paintings show them without big manes, though we cannot be sure the males had none.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses.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 ×1
1	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
10	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	manes	mane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Cave lions |  |  | cold Europe and Asia |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in europe=Location |
| 2 | **show** | present | cave paintings | lions *= lion* |  |  |  | without big manes | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | can | we |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | the males | none |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |

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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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**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:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses.lesson:10`.

**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 ×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/).

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