--- title: In 1741 sailors stranded on cold islands in the far north Pacific sa… — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's ea… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1741 sailors stranded on cold islands in the far north Pacific saw huge gentle animals grazing on kelp near the shore, up to about eight metres long. Who acts: sailors, huge gentle animals. A sentence of the lesson «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant bi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds/0/) [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/) / [Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds/) / 0 # Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 0 In 1741 sailors stranded on cold islands in the far north Pacific saw huge gentle animals grazing on kelp near the shore, up to about eight metres long. **Who acts:** sailors, huge gentle animals · **What happens:** strand, see, graze · **To what, where:** sailors, cold islands, huge gentle animals, 1741 This is a sentence of the lesson «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» 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 (sailors, huge gentle animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson:0 # text = In 1741 sailors stranded on cold islands in the far north Pacific saw huge gentle animals grazing on kelp near the shore, up to about eight metres long. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1741 1741 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 3 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 4 stranded strand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 11 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 grazing graze VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 kelp kelp NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 near near ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 up up ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl 29 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strand** | participle | | sailors *not said here* | | cold islands | | in the north Pacific | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | past | sailors | huge gentle animals | | 1741 | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | | 3 | **graze** | gerund | huge gentle animals *not said here* | | | | | near the shore; on kelp | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on kelp=Patient | 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:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson:0`. **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. **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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