--- title: In New Zealand the moas and the giant Haast's eagle that hunted them… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics description: In New Zealand the moas and the giant Haast's eagle that hunted them were gone within about 200 years after people arrived, a warning of how fast giants can vanish. Who acts: eagle, moas, people, giants. 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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 (eagle, moas, people, giants), 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:4 # text = In New Zealand the moas and the giant Haast's eagle that hunted them were gone within about 200 years after people arrived, a warning of how fast giants can vanish. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 New New PROPN NNP _ 3 flat _ _ 3 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 moas moa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Haast Haast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:aux:pass 16 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 within within ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 after after SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advcl 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 29 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 30 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 16 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 | **hunt** | past | the giant Haast's eagle | moas *= moa* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the moas and the giant Haast's eagle | | | New Zealand | year | gone *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **arrive** | past | people | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **vanish** | can | giants | | | | | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`. **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, 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. 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