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title: The animals built for the cold steppe disappeared, though scientists… — Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lio… · tree and pragmatics
description: The animals built for the cold steppe disappeared, though scientists still argue how much was climate and how much was people. Who acts: animals, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» of the biology cou
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# Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 7

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The animals built for the cold steppe disappeared, though scientists still argue how much was climate and how much was people.

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**Who acts:** animals, scientists · **What happens:** build, disappear, argue, be · **To what, where:** animals, much climate, much people

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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 (animals, scientists), 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:7
# text = The animals built for the cold steppe disappeared, though scientists still argue how much was climate and how much was people.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **build** | participle |  | the animals *not said here* |  |  |  | for the cold steppe | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for steppe=Asset |
| 2 | **disappear** | past | the animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | scientists |  |  |  | still |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | much climate and much people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | much people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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