--- title: After the dinosaurs, the world grew new giants: terror birds taller… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics description: After the dinosaurs, the world grew new giants: terror birds taller than a man with beaks like axes, moas taller than a basketball hoop, and a hornless rhino as heavy as several elephants. Who acts: world. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:0 # text = After the dinosaurs, the world grew new giants: terror birds taller than a man with beaks like axes, moas taller than a basketball hoop, and a hornless rhino as heavy as several elephants. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ _ 13 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 19 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 axes ax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 moas moa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 23 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 24 than than ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 basketball basketball NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 hoop hoop NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 hornless hornless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 rhino rhino NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 34 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nmod 35 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the world | new giants | | | after the dinosaurs | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme | 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. **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:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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