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title: Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic until about… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic until about 4,000 years ago, so a few mammoths were still alive after the Great Pyramid was built. Who acts: Woolly mammoths, few mammoths. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» of the history cours
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# Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 12

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Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic until about 4,000 years ago, so a few mammoths were still alive after the Great Pyramid was built.

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**Who acts:** Woolly mammoths, few mammoths · **What happens:** survive, be, build · **To what, where:** Wrangel Island, Great Pyramid

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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 (Woolly mammoths, few mammoths), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.lesson:12
# text = Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic until about 4,000 years ago, so a few mammoths were still alive after the Great Pyramid was built.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Wrangel	Wrangel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	until	until	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
23	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Pyramid	pyramid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | past | Woolly mammoths |  |  | Wrangel Island |  | in the Arctic; ago *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | a few mammoths |  |  |  | still | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | past · passive |  | the Great Pyramid |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.lesson:12`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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

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