--- title: The elephant bird of Madagascar laid eggs bigger than about 150 hen'… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics description: The elephant bird of Madagascar laid eggs bigger than about 150 hen's eggs together and was one of the heaviest birds ever; it died out about 1,000 years ago. Who acts: elephant bird, eagle. A sentence of the lesson «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» of the biology course of M --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 8 The elephant bird of Madagascar laid eggs bigger than about 150 hen's eggs together and was one of the heaviest birds ever; it died out about 1,000 years ago. **Who acts:** elephant bird, eagle · **What happens:** lay, be, die out · **To what, where:** eggs, one 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 (elephant bird, 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:8 # text = The elephant bird of Madagascar laid eggs bigger than about 150 hen's eggs together and was one of the heaviest birds ever; it died out about 1,000 years ago. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 9 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 12 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 15 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 heaviest heavy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 23 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 22 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 ago ago ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | past | the elephant bird of Madagascar | eggs | | | | together *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **is a** | past | the elephant bird of Madagascar *not said here* | one | | | | of the heaviest birds | tree rules | | 3 | **die out** | past | eagle | | | | | ago *property* | 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:8`. **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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