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title: At the end of the Ice Age the climate warmed fast, grasslands became… — Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lio… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of the Ice Age the climate warmed fast, grasslands became forest and people hunted more; how much each mattered is still argued. Who acts: climate, grasslands, people, each. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone
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# Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 19

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At the end of the Ice Age the climate warmed fast, grasslands became forest and people hunted more; how much each mattered is still argued.

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**Who acts:** climate, grasslands, people, each · **What happens:** warm, become, hunt, matter, argue · **To what, where:** end, forest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (climate, grasslands, people, each), 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:19
# text = At the end of the Ice Age the climate warmed fast, grasslands became forest and people hunted more; how much each mattered is still argued.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	Age	age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	warmed	warm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	grasslands	grassland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
24	mattered	matter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	csubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warm** | past | the climate |  |  |  | at the end of the Ice Age | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past | grasslands | forest |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hunt** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **matter** | past | each |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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