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title: Cave bears lived in Ice Age Europe, were bigger than most brown bear… — Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cave bears lived in Ice Age Europe, were bigger than most brown bears, ate mostly plants and died out about 25,000 years ago; many died in their winter sleep in caves. Who acts: Cave bears, many, bears. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicor
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# Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 9

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Cave bears lived in Ice Age Europe, were bigger than most brown bears, ate mostly plants and died out about 25,000 years ago; many died in their winter sleep in caves.

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**Who acts:** Cave bears, many, bears · **What happens:** live, be, eat, die out, die, sleep · **To what, where:** Age Europe, plants, most brown bears, winter sleep, caves

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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 (Cave bears, many, bears), 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:9
# text = Cave bears lived in Ice Age Europe, were bigger than most brown bears, ate mostly plants and died out about 25,000 years ago; many died in their winter sleep in caves.
# 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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	Age	age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
13	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	25,000	25000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked
25	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
28	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | past | Cave bears | Age Europe |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | than most brown bears; big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | past |  | plants |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient |
| 4 | **die out** | past |  |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **die** | participle | many | most brown bears *not said here* |  | bears's winter sleep in caves |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sleep** |  | bears *= bear* |  |  | caves |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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): R5-strong ×4, R8-pos-agree ×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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