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title: Bones, frozen bodies, cave paintings and chewed scraps are the clues… — Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bones, frozen bodies, cave paintings and chewed scraps are the clues that let us picture this lost world. Who acts: Bones, clues, us. 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 sc
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# Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 8

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Bones, frozen bodies, cave paintings and chewed scraps are the clues that let us picture this lost world.

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**Who acts:** Bones, clues, us · **What happens:** freeze, chew, be, let, picture, lose · **To what, where:** clues, us, lost world

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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 (Bones, clues, us), 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:8
# text = Bones, frozen bodies, cave paintings and chewed scraps are the clues that let us picture this lost world.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
4	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	chewed	chew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	picture	picture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **chew** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Bones and frozen bodies and cave paintings and chewed scraps | the clues |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | present | the clues | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **picture** | infinitive | us *not said here* | this lost world |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent world=Theme |
| 6 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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.

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