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title: During the last Ice Age huge sheets of ice covered the north, and pe… — The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: During the last Ice Age huge sheets of ice covered the north, and people lived alongside woolly mammoths, cave bears and giant deer. Who acts: huge sheets, people. A sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history course of Mova's primary school with it
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# The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 13

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During the last Ice Age huge sheets of ice covered the north, and people lived alongside woolly mammoths, cave bears and giant deer.

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**Who acts:** huge sheets, people · **What happens:** cover, live · **To what, where:** north, woolly mammoths

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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 (huge sheets, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:001-the-first-people.lesson:13
# text = During the last Ice Age huge sheets of ice covered the north, and people lived alongside woolly mammoths, cave bears and giant deer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 001-the-first-people.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	Age	age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
21	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **cover** | past | huge sheets of ice | the north |  |  | during the last Ice Age |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme north=Destination |
| 2 | **live** | past | people |  |  | woolly mammoths and cave bears and giant deer |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme alongside mammoth=Location |

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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:history:001-the-first-people.lesson:13`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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

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