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title: The last woolly mammoths, on Wrangel Island in the Arctic, died out… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics
description: The last woolly mammoths, on Wrangel Island in the Arctic, died out about 4,000 years ago, after the Great Pyramid was built. Who acts: last woolly mammoths. A sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 21

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The last woolly mammoths, on Wrangel Island in the Arctic, died out about 4,000 years ago, after the Great Pyramid was built.

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**Who acts:** last woolly mammoths · **What happens:** die out, build · **To what, where:** Great Pyramid

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This is a sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world 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 (last woolly mammoths), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:21
# text = The last woolly mammoths, on Wrangel Island in the Arctic, died out about 4,000 years ago, after the Great Pyramid was built.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	woolly	woolly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Wrangel	Wrangel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl:unmarked
18	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Pyramid	pyramid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **die out** | past | the last woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island in the Arctic |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:21`.

**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 ×3, 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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