--- title: Moas were giant plant-eating birds of New Zealand, up to about 3.6 m… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics description: Moas were giant plant-eating birds of New Zealand, up to about 3.6 metres tall with the neck up; the Haast's eagle, the biggest eagle ever, hunted them. Who acts: Moas, eagle. A sentence of the lesson «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» of the biology course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Terror birds, moas, giant insects and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants/) / 6 # Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 6 Moas were giant plant-eating birds of New Zealand, up to about 3.6 metres tall with the neck up; the Haast's eagle, the biggest eagle ever, hunted them. **Who acts:** Moas, eagle · **What happens:** eat, be, hunt · **To what, where:** giant eating birds, moas 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 (Moas, eagle), 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:6 # text = Moas were giant plant-eating birds of New Zealand, up to about 3.6 metres tall with the neck up; the Haast's eagle, the biggest eagle ever, hunted them. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Moas moa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 4 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 3.6 3.6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 16 nummod _ _ 16 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 17 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Haast Haast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 31 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | Moas | giant eating birds | | | | of New Zealand | tree rules | | 3 | **hunt** | past | the Haast's eagle | moas *= moa* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:6`. **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 ×2, 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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