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title: Gigantopithecus was a giant ape, maybe 3 metres tall, that lived in… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gigantopithecus was a giant ape, maybe 3 metres tall, that lived in China until about 300,000 years ago; we know it only from teeth and jaws, and there is no evidence that Bigfoot exists. Who acts: Gigantopithecus, giant ape, we, evidence. A sentence of the lesson «Terror birds, moas, giant insects 
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# Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 12

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Gigantopithecus was a giant ape, maybe 3 metres tall, that lived in China until about 300,000 years ago; we know it only from teeth and jaws, and there is no evidence that Bigfoot exists.

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**Who acts:** Gigantopithecus, giant ape, we, evidence, Bigfoot · **What happens:** be, live, know, exist · **To what, where:** giant ape, China, ape, teeth, evidence

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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 (Gigantopithecus, giant ape, we, evidence), 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:12
# text = Gigantopithecus was a giant ape, maybe 3 metres tall, that lived in China until about 300,000 years ago; we know it only from teeth and jaws, and there is no evidence that Bigfoot exists.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Gigantopithecus	Gigantopithecus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ape	ape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	until	until	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	300,000	300000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	Bigfoot	Bigfoot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | past | Gigantopithecus | a giant ape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | a giant ape |  |  | China |  | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location |
| 3 | **know** | present | we | ape |  | teeth and jaws |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | present | no evidence |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **exist** | present | Bigfoot | no evidence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.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 ×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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