--- title: Long winters and dry winds kept trees away, but grass and herbs fed… — Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lio… · tree and pragmatics description: Long winters and dry winds kept trees away, but grass and herbs fed huge herds of mammoths, horses, bison and woolly rhinos. Who acts: Long winters, grass. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Long winters, grass), 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:3 # text = Long winters and dry winds kept trees away, but grass and herbs fed huge herds of mammoths, horses, bison and woolly rhinos. # 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): R1-cc-next ×4, R5-strong ×1 1 Long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 winters winter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 11 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 herbs herb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 fed fed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 herds herd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 mammoths mammoth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 bison bison NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 24 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 rhinos rhino NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep away** | past | Long winters and dry winds | trees | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | | 2 | **fed** | past | grass and herbs | huge herds of mammoths and horses and bison and woolly rhinos | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×4, 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. 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