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description: At Mezhyrich in Ukraine, about 15,000 years ago, people built huts from mammoth bones, with jaws stacked in a neat zigzag. Who acts: people. 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 pri
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# Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 15

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At Mezhyrich in Ukraine, about 15,000 years ago, people built huts from mammoth bones, with jaws stacked in a neat zigzag.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** build, stack · **To what, where:** huts, Mezhyrich, jaws, neat zigzag

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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 (people), 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:15
# text = At Mezhyrich in Ukraine, about 15,000 years ago, people built huts from mammoth bones, with jaws stacked in a neat zigzag.
# 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): no change
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Mezhyrich	Mezhyrich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	15,000	15000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	stacked	stack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **build** | past | people | huts |  | Mezhyrich in Ukraine |  | from mammoth bones and jaws | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent hut=Product from bone=Material |
| 2 | **stack** | participle |  | jaws *not said here* |  | a neat zigzag |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in zigzag=Destination |

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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.

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