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title: The last mammoths lived on a small Arctic island until about 4,000 y… — Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lio… · tree and pragmatics
description: The last mammoths lived on a small Arctic island until about 4,000 years ago, when the pyramids of Egypt were already built. Who acts: last mammoths. 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 M
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# Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 20

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The last mammoths lived on a small Arctic island until about 4,000 years ago, when the pyramids of Egypt were already built.

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**Who acts:** last mammoths · **What happens:** live, build · **To what, where:** small Arctic island, pyramids

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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 (last mammoths), 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:20
# text = The last mammoths lived on a small Arctic island until about 4,000 years ago, when the pyramids of Egypt were already built.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	until	until	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
14	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	already	already	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **live** | past | the last mammoths |  |  | a small Arctic island |  | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive |  | the pyramids of Egypt |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:20`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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