--- title: People arrived in New Zealand around 1300 and hunted the moas, which… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics description: People arrived in New Zealand around 1300 and hunted the moas, which had never met a hunter on land before; the moas died out within about 200 years, and the Haast's eagle, having lost the big birds it hunted, died out with them. Who acts: People, moas, eagle. 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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 (People, 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:7 # text = People arrived in New Zealand around 1300 and hunted the moas, which had never met a hunter on land before; the moas died out within about 200 years, and the Haast's eagle, having lost the big birds it hunted, died out with 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 5 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 around around ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1300 1300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 9 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 moas moa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 21 before before ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 moas moa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 within within ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Haast Haast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 aux _ _ 39 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 45 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 46 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 47 out out ADP RP _ 46 compound:prt _ _ 48 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | People | | | New Zealand | | around 1300 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around 1300=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **hunt** | past | People *not said here* | the moas | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moa=Theme | | 3 | **not** **meet** | past · perfect | the moas | a hunter | | land | | before *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Co-Agent | | 4 | **die out** | past | the moas | | | | year | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **lose** | gerund · perfect | the Haast's eagle *not said here* | the big birds | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality | | 6 | **hunt** | past | eagle | the big birds *not said here* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | | 7 | **die out** | past | the Haast's eagle | | | | | with moas *= moa* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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